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From: Simon Siemonsma <simon@×××××××××.name>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: python-2.7 && python-updater
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:21:58
Message-Id: imi3l7$8oi$1@dough.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] python-2.7 && python-updater by Dale
1 I did python-updater as said by the ebuild.
2 After it I did emerge -a --depclean which removed python 2.6
3 Boy I was I happy that I have daily backups.
4 portage did not work anymore.
5
6 Changing the active python version before running python-updater gives a lot
7 more packages. I did portage by hand. Just don't want to restore a backup
8 two times a day.
9
10 Dale wrote:
11
12 > Mark Knecht wrote:
13 >> One of my machines just saw a python-2.7 update and the ebuild was
14 >> good enough to remind me to run python-updater, but it didn't suggest
15 >> that I run eselect python and set the active version to 2.7.
16 >>
17 >> Should this new version python be selected first as the active python
18 >> 2 version and then run python-updater?
19 >>
20 >> Thanks,
21 >> Mark
22 >>
23 >>
24 >
25 > And if we should set python to 2.7, should we remove python-2.6? I
26 > don't think we want to break something, portage in particular. ;-)
27 >
28 > Dale
29 >
30 > :-) :-)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: python-2.7 && python-updater Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>