[gentoo-dev] Re: News item review: python-exec 2.3 reclaims python* symlinks

[Michael Palimaka]

On 21/01/17 20:49, Michał Górny wrote:
> Please review the following news item. It was requested by users.
> Preferably I'd like to commit it today.
>
>  --
>
> Title: python-exec 2.3 reclaims python* symlinks
> Author: Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o>
> Content-Type: text/plain
> Posted: 2017-01-21
> Revision: 1
> News-Item-Format: 1.0
> Display-If-Installed: <app-eselect/eselect-python-20160206
> Display-If-Installed: <dev-lang/python-exec-2.3
>
> The new versions of python-exec (2.3 and newer) are reclaiming multiple
> Python-related symlinks in /usr/bin, most notably /usr/bin/python*. This
> may result in your package manager reporting file collisions.
>
> The respective symlinks were previously either unowned and created
> dynamically by app-eselect/eselect-python, or installed by it. From now
> on, all Python-related symlinks are installed and handled
> by python-exec. This ensures that they respect the python-exec
> configuration files and variables consistently with regular Python
> packages, and improves their reliability.
>
> If you are using FEATURES=collision-protect, Portage will reject
> the upgrade. If this is the case, please temporarily switch to
> FEATURES=protect-owned for the upgrade.
>
> If you are using FEATURES=protect-owned, Portage will verbosely warn
> about the file collisions but will proceed with the upgrade once
> determining no replaced files are owned. Please disregard the warning.
>
> The potentially colliding files are:
>
>  * /usr/bin/2to3
>  * /usr/bin/pydoc
>  * /usr/bin/python
>  * /usr/bin/python2
>  * /usr/bin/python3
>  * /usr/bin/python-config
>
> For more information on python-exec, please see:
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Python/python-exec
>
>

Thanks for writing this, looks good.