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From: Jack <ostroffjh@×××××××××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] eselect not showing python3.7 or 3.8
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2020 13:31:29
Message-Id: N25LCAO4.4SGK75MZ.CMDYWLW3@XJBWABJE.44WRI57F.YNMICNDU
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] eselect not showing python3.7 or 3.8 by William Kenworthy
1 On 2020.06.19 03:19, William Kenworthy wrote:
2 > I have been slowly fixing the mess that the python upgrade has made of
3 > my systems and have come across this:
4 >
5 > san0 ~ # eselect python list
6 > Available Python interpreters, in order of preference:
7 >   [1]   python3.6
8 >   [2]   python2.7
9 > san0 ~ # equery l python
10 >  * Searching for python ...
11 > [IP-] [  ] dev-lang/python-2.7.18:2.7
12 > [IP-] [  ] dev-lang/python-3.6.10-r2:3.6/3.6m
13 > [IP-] [  ] dev-lang/python-3.7.7-r2:3.7/3.7m
14 > [IP-] [  ] dev-lang/python-3.8.2-r2:3.8
15 > san0 ~ #
16 >
17 > eselect python cleanup does not change anything. The system is
18 > refusing
19 > me from removing python3.6 and re-emerging 3.7 doesn't change
20 > anything. 
21 > 4 other almost identical hosts are fine.
22 >
23 > I was looking at why ansible was failing on hosts that had python3.6
24 > removed and came across this one ...
25 >
26 > BillK
27 Any chance re-emerging eselect-python might help?