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On Sat, 21 Jan 2017 17:36:27 +0100 |
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Kristian Fiskerstrand <k_f@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 01/21/2017 10:49 AM, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> > Please review the following news item. It was requested by users. |
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> > Preferably I'd like to commit it today. |
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> .. |
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> > |
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> > If you are using FEATURES=collision-protect, Portage will reject |
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> > the upgrade. If this is the case, please temporarily switch to |
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> > FEATURES=protect-owned for the upgrade. |
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> > |
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> > If you are using FEATURES=protect-owned, Portage will verbosely warn |
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> > about the file collisions but will proceed with the upgrade once |
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> > determining no replaced files are owned. Please disregard the warning. |
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> This change broke a stable system in my case without any of these features. |
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> world upgrade failed with * ERROR: dev-python/pycairo-1.10.0-r5::gentoo |
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> failed (configure phase): due to |
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> /usr/bin/env: ‘python’: No such file or directory |
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> system ended up with a broken symlink |
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> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Jan 21 13:55 |
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> /usr/bin/python -> python-wrapper |
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> additionally the original upgrade, after manually setting the updated |
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> symlink, ended up with a |
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> python-exec: Invalid impl in /etc/python-exec/python-exec.conf: python3.3 |
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> How was this allowed into stable? |
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I know things like this don't ever happen in your beloved perfect |
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corporate world but mistakes happen. FYI, in open source you usually |
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report a bug instead of bitching on a semi-related topic on a mailing |
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list. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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<http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/> |
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