On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:59:44 +0000 (UTC)
Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@...> wrote:

> Frank Peters posted on Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:02:15 -0400 as excerpted:
> 
> > Recently, after an emerge I will sometimes see this message in bold red
> > colors:
> > 
> > !!! CANNOT IMPORT HTTP.CLIENT: cannot import name HTTPSConnection
> > 
> > Everything functions normally and there are no problems with anything
> > else.  But why the message?  The source of the message is the portage
> > getbinpkg.py file, but I don't know the purpose of this file.
> 
> getbinpkg.py would do what its name implies, check for binary packages.  
> Standard from-source emerging should work fine, as you noted it seems to, 
> but if you run FEATURES=buildpkg as I do, or otherwise have binary 
> packages available, it's likely you'll have trouble merging them when you 
> try.
>

That is correct.  Now that I've done some checking, the message occurs 
when I use the "-B" option to emerge.  But I also have seen it following
an emerge --sync.

> The problem is likely related to portage's interaction with python.  Do 
> you have both python-3 and python 2.5 or 2.6 merged?  

I have python-3.1.1 and python-2.6.3 installed.  It was not my intention
to install both; portage/emerge just did it automatically.  By the
time I noticed this dual installation my system was in place for some time
and running without problems, so I just left things that way.  Python-updater
(run without options) doesn't report any anomaly.

What python version should I be using as the system python, 2.6.3 or
3.1.1?  Should I delete the older version and run python-updater?

Frank Peters