[gentoo-user] unable to do world update --problem may be caused by mailman

[John Covici]

Hi.  In trying to do my world update today, I ran into the following
problem which I am not sure how to solve.

I got the following:

The first thing I got was that there was no ebuilds to satisfy
dev-python/dnspython  so I copied an ebuild which I installed about 3
weeks ago to my local ebuilds and made a manifest for it and now I get
the following:

emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy
"dev-python/dnspython[python_targets_python2_7(-)]".
(dependency required by "net-mail/mailman-2.1.33::gentoo" [installed])
(dependency required by "@selected" [set])
(dependency required by "@world" [argument])
In the ebuild, python27 is not listed in the python_compat list, so I
am puzzled as to how I did manage to install it at all.

So, since mailman 2.1.33 seems to be the latest version in the tree
and I have heard on other lists that mailman 3 is not ready for prime
time, I am put in a dilema -- I certainly want to be able to update my
system, but keep this version of mailman till the new version is
ready.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

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