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From: allan gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] problem emerging new stable python
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 00:05:49
Message-Id: 874lpcr5pr.fsf@nyu.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] problem emerging new stable python by Marc Joliet
1 On Thu, Nov 30 2017, Marc Joliet wrote:
2
3 > Am Mittwoch, 29. November 2017, 22:29:59 CET schrieb allan gottlieb:
4 >> On Wed, Nov 29 2017, Alan McKinnon wrote:
5 > [...]
6 >> >> Both 6430 and 7450 have the following content in
7 >> >> /etc/portage/package.use/systemd-cron
8 >> >>
9 >> >> # systemd-cron needs PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET = 3.x.
10 >> >> sys-process/systemd-cron python_single_target_python3_4
11 > [...]
12 >
13 > Isn't this the problem? PYTHON_TARGETS has switched to python3_5 but that's
14 > in conflict with the above (or should be, IIUC). Remove that or change it to
15 > "python_single_target_python3_5" (I would remove it; according to my git log,
16 > I removed a similar line in August when I noticed that the profiles already
17 > default to Python 3.x in $PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGETS).
18 >
19 > I admit, though, that I am surprised that one machine can apparently still go
20 > through with the upgrade. Does it also have systemd-cron installed? Or maybe
21 > I'm forgetting or missing something...
22 >
23 > HTH
24
25 Bingo!
26
27 1. The 6430 does not have systemd-cron so was unaffected
28
29 2. I commented out the package.use line for systemd-cron in the 7450,
30 which does use systemd-cron, and it seems willing to do the update
31 world. (The 6430 is a backup, I will do the update on it first.)
32
33 thank you very much.
34 allan