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From: Jack <ostroffjh@×××××××××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: python mess - random winge!
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2022 16:36:29
Message-Id: JXOJYK6U.RJVMWW5Z.HYHLTAAD@CKXCDA73.UVSJ22QG.UWWZGXLA
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: python mess - random winge! by Grant Edwards
1 On 2022.07.05 12:24, Grant Edwards wrote:
2 > On 2022-07-05, William Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au> wrote:
3 >
4 > > I synced portage a couple of days now and now my systems are
5 > rebuilding
6 > > python modules for 3.10 without any input from me [...]
7 >
8 > Every time there's a Python upgrade like this, it turns into a bit of
9 > an ordeal because I always have a small handful of packages that don't
10 > support the newer version.
11 >
12 > The news item offers no advice on what to do in this situation other
13 > than completely postponing the upgrade of everything (which doesn't
14 > seem like the best choice.)
15 >
16 > It would be nice if the news item explained how to let the upgrade
17 > procede while holding back a few packages.
18 >
19 > Can you set 3_9 and 3_10 globally, and then disable 3_10 for a few
20 > individual packages that can't be built with 3_10?
21 As far as I can tell, you just need to add python_targets_python3_9 for
22 the package in the appropriate package.use file.

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[gentoo-user] Re: python mess - random winge! Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: python mess - random winge! Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>