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On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Adam Carter <Adam.Carter@×××××××××.au> wrote: |
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>> The root of the problem is really quite simple, you have a system with |
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>> a python version python-updater doesn't like. The solution is actually |
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>> quite simple: |
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>> step 1. update python to 2.5, rebuild cracklib (afaik cracklib is the |
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>> only system package that requires python), portage, gentookit. |
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>> step 2. at this point, you can unmerge the old python, some packages |
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>> *will* break, but you will still have a console that works fine, and |
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>> your portage is built against the 2.5. |
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>> step 3. emerge python-updater, since no python-2.3 is present, it'll |
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>> emerge happily. |
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>> step 4. run python-updater |
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>> step 5. voila |
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> A more conservative approach (which shouldn't break anything AFAIK, but will take longer) is; |
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> 1. Run python-updater to move everything from 2.3 to 2.4 |
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> 2. Uninstall python 2.3 |
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> 3. Do your full emerge -uvD to update to python-updater 0.5 and python 2.5 |
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> 4. (optional, you could to it later) run python-updater to move everything from 2.4 to 2.5 |
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> 5. (optional) run prelink again to catch everything that emerge world installed/updated |
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At this point do you suggest that python-2.4 could be removed? |
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- Mark |
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