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On Wednesday 12 October 2005 07:39, Dave Nebinger wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 12 October 2005 12:58 am, Francesco Talamona wrote: |
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> > Yesterday, after python update (dev-lang/python-2.4.1-r1), emerge |
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> > refused to work, I had to comment both lines in |
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> > /etc/portage/modules and reemerge dev-python/python-cdb. |
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> > |
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> > It wasn't a stopper, but it worth mention. |
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> That was the part I mentioned earlier. I think if you caught the |
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> note to run python-updater after the python upgrade it would have |
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> covered this. |
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I missed both your point and the note during emerge :-) |
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> Basically what happens is that, without running python-updater, |
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> you've got a number of python packages installed in |
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> /usr/lib/python-2.3/site-packages (or something like that). |
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> After the python 2.4 upgrade, those packages are no longer available, |
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> as 2.4 is looking for them in /usr/lib/python-2.4/site-packages (or |
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> whatever). |
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> Running python-updater is supposed to get those old guys moved from |
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> 2.3 to 2.4 so everything works. |
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> Unfortunately if that message about running python-updater floats by |
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> in the middle of updating a bunch of packages it is easy to miss, and |
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> before you know it you think your system is majorly screwed. |
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Luckily I wasn't scared and recovered my system in 3 minutes. I was |
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checking what packages would be installed with a new program when |
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emerge stopped to work; in the meantime in another shell world update |
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was still running happily. It was very easy to find out the guilty |
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one :-) |
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Now python-updater is running, it found a lot to do... |
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> I posted a message to gentoo-dev asking for an enhancement to portage |
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> that would collect the messages generated in the pkg_postinstall |
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> phase and re-report them after all packages have completed. |
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> Fortunately it is already an enhancement that is on the list, but |
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> it's not clear when it will be released. In the meantime I'm going |
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> to check out ENOTICE |
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> http://dev.gentoo.org/~eldad/ to see if it will work as a short-term |
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> solution. |
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This matter is a long lasting request, IMHO it is come the time for |
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Gentoo to make this evolutive step. I saw other source-based distros |
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making an HTML file of compiler output long ago: when you install |
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something only important messages are outputted, all the details are |
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easily readable with a browser. But it is just one of the several |
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possible ways to manage this important feature. |
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Ciao |
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Francesco |
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