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From: Albert Hopkins <marduk@×××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] All ~arch users: do not update python
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 01:21:12
Message-Id: 1280798427.129304.8.camel@paska
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] All ~arch users: do not update python by Nikos Chantziaras
1 On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 03:53 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
2 > Updating python to 2.6.5_p20100801 will break portage. emerge will stop
3 > working after that and there's no information on how to recover from
4 > that right now (because emerge won't work, you can't downgrade to the
5 > previous, working python version.)
6 >
7 > Bug for this issue: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330937
8 >
9
10 Must not affect all users because it works for me:
11
12
13 [Orbitrap(84) ~]$ epm -q python
14 python-2.5.4-r4
15 python-3.1.2_p20100801
16 python-2.6.5_p20100801
17
18 ╭─╮ Linux 35+ --❨ 5 users ❩-- Load: 1.34 1.14 1.49 ╭─╮
19 ╰─╯ Mon Aug 02 ❬voltron@paska❭ ↑ epm: 1s ╰─╯
20 [Orbitrap(92) ~]$ eselect python list
21 Available Python interpreters:
22 [1] python2.5
23 [2] python2.6 *
24 [3] python3.1
25
26 ╭─╮ Linux 35+ --❨ 5 users ❩-- Load: 1.34 1.14 1.49 ╭─╮
27 ╰─╯ Mon Aug 02 ❬voltron@paska❭ ↑ eselect: 0s ╰─╯
28 [Orbitrap(92) ~]$ sudo emerge -1 python
29 Calculating dependencies... done!
30 >>> Verifying ebuild manifests
31 >>> Emerging (1 of 1) dev-lang/python-3.1.2_p20100801
32 >>> Installing (1 of 1) dev-lang/python-3.1.2_p20100801
33 >>> Jobs: 1 of 1 complete Load avg: 1.80, 1.47, 1.55
34 >>> Auto-cleaning packages...
35
36 >>> No outdated packages were found on your system.

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Re: [gentoo-user] All ~arch users: do not update python John Campbell <jdc.rpv@×××.net>