On Sat, 2009-10-17 at 23:59 +0000, 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.
> 
> 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?  The newest versions 
> of python packages and portage itself should work fine in that case, but 
> the fixes necessary to make it work are fairly recent, so you may have to 
> remerge various python packages (some may require the newest ~arch 
> version) so they setup modules for both python 3 and python 2.x -- 
> formerly they only setup modules in whatever python happened to be the 
> system python at the time.
> 
> But if you don't bother with binary packages anyway, at least that 
> message shouldn't be an issue for you, you should be able to simply 
> ignore it.
> 
will running python-updater help this?