Re: [gentoo-python] Fixing python-exec slotting issue

[Michał Górny]

Dnia 2013-10-02, o godz. 13:30:51
Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> napisał(a):

> Now, we don't have a proper way of updating deps of the old packages,
> and portage's --dynamic-deps doesn't seem to handle it. We can either:
>
> a) tell users to hack their vdb and fix deps therein,

Another possible solution popped up in #gentoo-python.

We could make python-exec:2 ebuild run a quick vardb fixup.

find -name '*DEPEND' -exec \
  sed -i -e 's@dev-python/python-exec\[@dev-python/python-exec:0[@' {} +

While ugly, it should be fairly safe and easy to do. And I think that
we can currently rely on vdb internals like this since other ebuilds,
eclasses and software does that as well.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny