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From: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] pkg_postinst errors portage 1.5.3
Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2001 14:18:01
Message-Id: 20010805141801.A26035@cvs.gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] pkg_postinst errors portage 1.5.3 by Gontran
1 On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 12:27:40PM -0700, Gontran wrote:
2 > * Daniel Robbins (drobbins@g.o) wrote:
3 > > On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 01:00:07PM -0600, Daniel Robbins wrote:
4 > >
5 > > > The permission denied message is a problem related to those files being
6 > > > busy.
7 > >
8 > > Um; this is now fixed on CVS. Everyone should remerge the new portage-1.5.3;
9 > > if for some reason Portage doesn't run, then make sure you have portage.py and
10 > > xpak.py in /usr/lib/python2.0/site-packages. If so, then zap the portage.py(c)
11 > > and xpak.py(c) files in /usr/lib/python2.0/, which is the old location.
12 > >
13 >
14 > I got the new portage from 12:08 MST with
15 >
16 > > emerge rsync
17 >
18 > but ...
19 >
20 > > cd /usr/portage/sys-apps/portage
21 > > emerge portage-1.5.3.ebuild
22 > Calculating dependencies.Traceback (most recent call last):
23 > File "/usr/sbin/emerge", line 436, in ?
24 > mydepgraph.create(mytype+" "+portage.root+" "+mykey)
25 > File "/usr/sbin/emerge", line 55, in create
26 > edepend=portage.doebuild(myebuild,"depend",1,edebug)
27 > TypeError: too many arguments; expected 3, got 4
28
29 Yes; as I explained, you need to delete the old portage.py and xpak.py in
30 /usr/lib/python2.0 for Portage to work again.
31
32 Best Regards,
33
34 --
35 Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>
36 Chief Architect/President http://www.gentoo.org
37 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] pkg_postinst errors portage 1.5.3 Gontran <gontran@×××××××.net>
Re: [gentoo-dev] pkg_postinst errors portage 1.5.3 Collins Richey <erichey2@××××.com>