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From: Daniel Pielmeier <daniel.pielmeier@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] portage problems
Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2008 10:21:16
Message-Id: 47A44401.7060600@googlemail.com
In Reply to: RE: [gentoo-user] portage problems by "Carter
1 Carter, Dwayne schrieb:
2 > [blocks B ] <dev-lang/python-2.3.6-r2 (is blocking app-admin/python-updater-0.2)
3
4 You also have to be careful with this blocker, never unmerge python or
5 you are lost as portage does not work without python. You have to do
6 something like this to get around it.
7
8 >> quickpkg =dev-lang/python-2.3.5
9 this makes a backup of your old python version in case something gets
10 wrong (adapt the version to match your currently installed one)
11
12 >> emerge --nodeps -avt =dev-lang/python-2.4.4-r6
13 installs the new python version without dependencies so the
14 python-updater can not block the old python version
15
16 >> emerge -avC =dev-lang/python-2.3.5
17 removes the old version of python
18
19 >> emerge -avt python-updater
20 installs python-updater
21
22 >> emerge -avt portage
23 reinstalls portage so it uses the new python version
24
25 It is also good thing to run python-updater after this.
26
27 Please could someone confirm this, as i have never done this myself,
28 just googling! :)
29
30 > !!! Problems have been detected with your world file
31 > !!! Please run emaint --check world
32
33 You should also consider this! There are some invalid entries in your
34 world file. Normally this are packages which are in world but are not
35 installed on the system.
36
37 Regards,
38
39 Daniel
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Re: [gentoo-user] portage problems Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>