[gentoo-user] [SOLVED] portage install complains about missing "netlink" module

[Walter Dnes]

On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 06:57:14AM +0100, Ashley Dixon wrote
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 10:25:14PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
> >   Setting up to do my monthly update <G>.  There was an update to
> > portage, so I ran it. The final stage (install) complained about a
> > missing (python?) module named "netlink".  Is this a serious problem?
>
> I can't immediately see why portage would require this; I have the
> same  version of you  and  it  compiles  fine  without  netlink.
> Nonetheless,  try  emerging dev-python/netlink.
>
> What are your portage USE-flags ?

PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_6"
PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_6"

  Wait a minute.  Looking at the error message in more detail, I see
"/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/portage/process.py" is the file
complaining.  No complaints from python 3.6.  I tried turning off python
2.7 for portage in package.use...

sys-apps/portage -python_single_target_python2_7 -rsync-verify

...and the portage install was short and sweet.

========================================================================
>>> Installing (1 of 1) sys-apps/portage-2.3.89-r2::gentoo
 * Using python3.6 in global scope
 * Setting make.globals default DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" for backward compatibility
 * Setting repos.conf default location = /usr/portage for backward compatibility
>>> Auto-cleaning packages...

>>> No outdated packages were found on your system.

 * GNU info directory index is up-to-date
========================================================================

  After doing the update, I'll remove "python2_7" from make.conf, re-update,
and see what breaks, and requires "python_single_target_python2_7" in
package.use.

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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications