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On Saturday 23 July 2011 16:32:39 Dale did opine thusly: |
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> walt wrote: |
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> > This will affect (I think) only ~arch users. |
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> > If you are running the new linux kernel version 3.0, you will |
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> > find that today's update of python will fail with the error |
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> > "plat-linux2 not found". |
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> > That's because the python configure scripts will detect the |
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> > version 3 kernel and will try to use "plat-linux3" instead of |
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> > "plat-linux2". |
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> > To finish today's update of python2 and python3, just boot |
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> > with any kernel-2.6.x and repeat the python update. |
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> Did you by chance file a roach report? If so, number or link |
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> please. |
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> Sounds like 2.6.40 may have been a better idea. lol |
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Dear god, no! |
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May I point your attention over to portage so you can see for yourself |
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how silly that can get? 100 _rc versions and currently at 46 _alphas. |
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It's starting to look like svn commit numbers would be a better number |
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scheme :-) |
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Maintainers everywhere will simply have to update their install |
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scripts (the usual point of failure for something like this) and it |
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will be mostly fixed everywhere in about a fortnight. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |