Re: [gentoo-user] python-updater failure

Joshua Murphy <poisonbl@×××××.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 10:49 PM, Michael P. Soulier
> <msoulier@×××××××××××××.ca> wrote:
> > So I ran a big emerge --update world and it picked up Python 2.6 from 2.5.
> > It'd be nice if python-updater ran automatically when this happens but it
> > doesn't, but gcompris failing to build was a nice reminder that it needed to
> > be done.
> >
> > So I ran it...
> >
> > msoulier@anton:~$ sudo python-updater
> > Password:
> >  * Starting Python Updater from 2.5 to 2.6 :
> >  *   Adding to list: =net-p2p/bittorrent-5.0.9-r1
> >  *   Adding to list: =app-admin/webapp-config-1.50.16-r1
> >  *   Adding to list: =dev-util/scons-1.2.0-r1
> >  *   Adding to list: =sys-libs/cracklib-2.8.13
> >  *   Adding to list: =gnome-extra/libgsf-1.14.11
> >  *   Adding to list: =media-libs/mutagen-1.15
> >  *   Adding to list: =media-libs/lcms-1.18-r1
> >  *   Adding to list: =media-libs/pdflib-7.0.2_p8
> >  *   Adding to list: =dev-libs/boost-1.35.0-r2
> >  *   Adding to list: =dev-libs/libxslt-1.1.24-r1
> >  *   Adding to list: =dev-libs/libgamin-0.1.10-r2
> >  *   Adding to list: =dev-python/numeric-24.2-r6
> >  *   Adding to list: =dev-python/lxml-2.2.1
> >  *   Adding to list: =dev-python/cython-0.11.2
> >  *   Adding to list: =dev-python/numpy-1.2.1
> >  *   Adding to list: =dev-python/pygobject-2.16.1
> >  *   Adding to list: =dev-python/pycairo-1.8.2
> >  *   Adding to list: =dev-python/gnuplot-py-1.8
> >  *   Adding to list: =dev-python/twisted-web-8.1.0
> >  *   Adding to list: =dev-python/pycrypto-2.0.1-r8
> >  *   Adding to list: =dev-python/pyopenssl-0.9
> >  *   Adding to list: =dev-python/pyopengl-3.0.0
> >  *   Adding to list: =dev-python/dnspython-1.6.0
> >  *   Adding to list: =dev-python/twisted-8.1.0
> >  *   Adding to list: =dev-python/pyxml-0.8.4-r1
> >  *   Adding to list: =dev-python/wxpython-2.6.4.0-r2
> >  *   Adding to list: =x11-libs/vte-0.17.4-r3
> >  *   Adding to list: =net-zope/zope-interface-3.5.1
> >  *   Adding to list: =app-portage/layman-1.2.3
> >  *   Adding to list: =dev-java/java-config-1.3.7-r1
> >
> > These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
> >
> > Calculating dependencies... done!
> >
> > emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "=dev-python/lxml-2.2.1".
> >
> > Umm... now what?
> >
> > Mike
> > --
> > Michael P. Soulier <msoulier@×××××××××××××.ca>
> > "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a
> > touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction."
> > --Albert Einstein
> >
>
> umm, well, I've not synced too awefully recently on the box I have
> handy, but I'm seeing these two ebuilds for lxml:
>
> lxml-2.2.2.ebuild  lxml-2.2.3.ebuild
>
> I'd guess, offhand, that you should install a newer version, since the
> one it's looking for (likely due to that being the already installed
> version) doesn't appear to exist in the tree anymore.
>
> Also, if you run into errors actually installing any of that list
> there, take a glance at http://bugs.gentoo.org/230205 ... down in the
> comments there's mention of needing to prod eselect to fix things.
>
> --
> Poison [BLX]
> Joshua M. Murphy
There is an argument to pythonupdater to ignore version numbers -- maybe
this will help your problem.


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