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From: "Elaine C. Sharpe" <elaine@×××××××××××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with python-updater ?
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 04:16:30
Message-Id: 20110326041427.GA7600@gaurahari
1 In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
2 > Jacques Montier (Fri, 25 Mar 2011 17:17:41 +0100):
3 >> Hi all,
4 >>
5 >> I upgraded python2.6 to python2.7,
6 >> then i run eselect python set python2.7,
7 >> then python-updater.
8 >>
9 >> Here is the python-updater output :
10 >>
11 >> * Starting Python Updater...
12 >> * Main active version of Python: 2.7
13 >> * Active version of Python 2: 2.7
14 >> * Active version of Python 3: 3.1
15 >> * Adding to list: app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-baselibs:0
16 >> * Adding to list: app-emulation/virtualbox-bin:0
17 >> * Adding to list: app-office/libreoffice-bin:0
18 >> * Adding to list: dev-libs/boost:1.42
19 >> * check: manual [Added to list manually, see CHECKS in manpage for
20 >> more information.]
21 >> * Adding to list: sys-libs/tdb:0
22 >> * Adding to list: x11-libs/vte:0
23 >> * check: manual [Added to list manually, see CHECKS in manpage for
24 >> more information.]
25 >> * emerge -Dv1 --keep-going app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-baselibs:0
26 >> app-emulation/virtualbox-bin:0 app-office/libreoffice-bin:0
27 >> dev-libs/boost:1.42 sys-libs/tdb:0 x11-libs/vte:0
28 >> ...............................
29 >> Ok, everything emerge fine.
30 >>
31 >> If i run python-updater again, then i get exactly the same output as
32 >> before (emerging emul-linux-x86-baselibs:0, BOOST:1.42, etc...)
33 >>
34 >> What's wrong ??
35 >
36 > According to the list of checks python-updater performs it's indeed
37 > weird that it's happening. But maybe python-updater has some
38 > undocumented, hidden intelligence.:) If you run emerge or something
39 > written in python, do you see (in the process
40 > listing) /usr/bin/python2.7 being the interpreter in action? If so, try
41 > moving away /usr/lib/python2.6 and /usr/bin/python2.6 (just moving
42 > away, not deleting). Does still everything run? Then I believe you can
43 > safely get rid of python 2.6 and python-updater will probably stop
44 > trying to re-emerge everything.
45 >
46 > -rz
47
48 Sounds like it could be the same problem I was having. Boost seems broken
49 for me on two different systems since 1.42.0-r1, at least according to
50 python-updater. I tried 1.42.0 and 1.45.0 as well but still had the same
51 problem, so finally just got rid of boost. Afterward python updated to 2.7 in
52 an orderly fashion, and once I switched from xmms2 to mpd no longer
53 needed boost.
54
55 --
56 "...she kept arranging and rearranging the rabbit and kind of waving to it.
57 I decided, "this is the person I want to sit next to".