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From: Jeremy Olexa <darkside@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] mysterious change of system python to python3
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 20:08:48
Message-Id: 7f7bbf8e14a23e1e7183131dae7ea81a@webmail.jolexa.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] mysterious change of system python to python3 by "Paweł Hajdan
1 On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 19:30:03 +0100, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote:
2 > I've noticed at least two forums threads that suggest there might be
3 > a
4 > bug resulting in automatic "flip" of system python to python3:
5 >
6 > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-859654-highlight-.html
7 > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6541077.html
8 >
9 > Do you think it may be a bug, and if so, how can we debug it?
10
11 Both of those threads were on new installs. There was a regression in
12 stage building for some time that set python3 as the default system
13 python. That was fixed here:
14
15 5 01 Jan 2011; Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto <jmbsvicetto@g.o>
16 6 python-2.6.6-r1.ebuild:
17 7 Non-maintainer commit.
18 8 Reverting commit that broke stage generation for python-2.6.6-r1 as
19 it wasn't
20 9 reverted before - bug 347867.
21 10 This commit was accepted by Arfrever.
22
23 See also, bug 330655. FWIW, I have recently confirmed that there is
24 expected behavior now in the stage3-amd64-20110106 tarball.
25
26 -Jeremy

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Re: [gentoo-dev] mysterious change of system python to python3 Sebastian Pipping <sping@g.o>