Re: [gentoo-dev] pkg_postinst errors portage 1.5.3

[Collins Richey]

On Sun, 5 Aug 2001 14:18:01 -0600 Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>
wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 12:27:40PM -0700, Gontran wrote:
> > * Daniel Robbins (drobbins@g.o) wrote:
> > > On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 01:00:07PM -0600, Daniel Robbins wrote:
> > >
> > > > The permission denied message is a problem related to those files
> being
> > > > busy.
> > >
> > > Um; this is now fixed on CVS.  Everyone should remerge the new
> portage-1.5.3;
> > > if for some reason Portage doesn't run, then make sure you have
> portage.py and
> > > xpak.py in /usr/lib/python2.0/site-packages.  If so, then zap the
> portage.py(c)
> > > and xpak.py(c) files in /usr/lib/python2.0/, which is the old
> location.
> > >
> >
> > I got the new portage from 12:08 MST with
> >
> > > emerge rsync
> >
> > but ...
> >
> > > cd /usr/portage/sys-apps/portage
> > > emerge portage-1.5.3.ebuild
> > Calculating dependencies.Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "/usr/sbin/emerge", line 436, in ?
> >     mydepgraph.create(mytype+" "+portage.root+" "+mykey)
> >   File "/usr/sbin/emerge", line 55, in create
> >     edepend=portage.doebuild(myebuild,"depend",1,edebug)
> > TypeError: too many arguments; expected 3, got 4
>
> Yes; as I explained, you need to delete the old portage.py and xpak.py
> in
> /usr/lib/python2.0 for Portage to work again.
>
> Best Regards,
>

Is that "delete them" before or after merging portage 1.5.3?


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Collins Richey
Denver Area
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