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From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] python-2.7 && python-updater
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 19:57:59
Message-Id: AANLkTi=tcSeW8ryHhMEqtqOgc1wR_gysFUb+sjWv2anq@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] python-2.7 && python-updater by Mick
1 On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > On Saturday 26 March 2011 19:10:12 Mark Knecht wrote:
3 >> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
4 >> > On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 20:09:50 +0100, Stéphane Guedon wrote:
5 >> >> I think wicd rely on python 2.6 currently. This is my setup on my
6 >> >> laptop ! (trying other version break networking with wicd).
7 >> >
8 >> > Wicd works fine with 2.7. There was a problem when 2,7 was first
9 >> > released, but that was fixed in a Wicd update.
10 >> >
11 >> >
12 >> > --
13 >> > Neil Bothwick
14 >>
15 >> I've been through this 2.7 update process on 4 machines now. It seems
16 >> on all of my machines the python-updater thing is pretty much always
17 >> broken with respect to:
18 >>
19 >> openoffice-bin
20 >> boost
21 >> emul-linux-x86-baselibs
22 >>
23 >> No matter how many times I rerun things it just wants to keep rebuilding
24 >> them.
25 >>
26 >> What's weird is that no two machine see exactly the same. Some only
27 >> fail with one of those packages, others fail with 2 or 3. Rerunning
28 >> phython-updater, or lafilefixer, or revdep-rebuild or removing them
29 >> completely and letting emerge -DuN @world reinstall them changes
30 >> nothing. They just go on failing the same way.
31 >>
32 >> Waste of time so far...
33 >
34 > If you machines are running stable arch there was also this that came up
35 > today:
36 >
37 > revdep-rebuild -v --library 'libmpfr.so.1' -- --ask
38 >
39 > Check your elog in case there are some more packages that need revdep-rebuild.
40 >
41 > --
42 > Regards,
43 > Mick
44 >
45
46 I had nothing linked to libmpfr.so.1 so that wasn't the root cause/
47
48 In my case it seems to be driven by bugs like this:
49
50 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=360425
51
52 Seems the only thing to do it just wait for devs to fix it. (And
53 wonder why something like python-2.7 gets released as stable with
54 stuff like this hanging about....)
55
56 Cheers,
57 Mark

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Re: [gentoo-user] python-2.7 && python-updater Bill Longman <bill.longman@×××××.com>