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On 16 September 2014 17:02:43 CEST, Joseph <syscon780@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>On 09/16/14 14:18, James wrote: |
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>>Joseph <syscon780 <at> gmail.com> writes: |
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>>> |
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>>> After recent emerge I get few blockers, that I don't know what to do |
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>>> with it My box has not been updated for 3-months :-/ |
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>>Joseph, |
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>>The problems with perl updates are not new. It was discussed on this |
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>>list quite a bit the last few months. If your update cycle is more |
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>than |
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>>a few weeks, you are going to miss the relevant discussions on |
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>gentoo-user |
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>>that solve most of your issues; so maybe update your system |
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>weekly_ish? |
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>>(and browse gentoo-user). |
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>>> emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "dev-lang/python:3.1". |
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>>" eselect python list " |
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>>will show your current active version of python. Most all (stable) |
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>systems |
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>>have a version 2 (2.7) and version 3 (3.3) installed. I'm not |
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>>sure why your system did not upgrade 3.1 to 3.3, during the course |
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>>of routine upgrades. Also run: |
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>>"python-updater" |
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>>after compiling new or removing old version of |
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>>python. python is system *critical* so be cautious when performing |
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>>install/removal admin tasks on python. |
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>>hth, |
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>>James |
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> |
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>Good suggestion. |
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>Running: |
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># eselect python list |
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># eselect python set (put number for python:3.3) |
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># emerge -C dev-lang/python:3.1 |
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># python updater |
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> |
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>solved all the problems. |
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>I was at python:3.3 but for some reason or another (mostly my fault) I |
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>did not unmerged python:3.1 |
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>When it comes to upgrading be-weekly maybe but from my experience, when |
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>I was doing it more often, occasionally, I ended up with a broken |
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>system that was caused by new |
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>packages. |
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>I have 4-boxes at home and two boxes at a remote location. So the |
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>boxes at home get upgraded first, I wait a week, just to make sure |
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>every program works and |
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>then I upgrade one box on a remote location, wait one week again and |
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>upgrade the second box (the backup) in the remote location. |
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>So doing it even every second week would be too often for this routine. |
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>The boxes are "rsync" to one local box. |
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I am starting to wonder. |
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How exactly do you upgrade the other machines? |
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Copying the entire filesystem? |
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Joost |
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