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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] python-2.7 && python-updater
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 16:47:08
Message-Id: 4D8CC686.2050002@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] python-2.7 && python-updater by Roman Zilka
1 Roman Zilka wrote:
2 > Mark Knecht (Fri, 25 Mar 2011 06:56:20 -0700):
3 >
4 >> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 2:50 AM, Neil Bothwick<neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
5 >>
6 >>> On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 04:37:15 -0500, Dale wrote:
7 >>>
8 >>>
9 >>>> Out of curiosity, how long you, or someone else, been using python
10 >>>> 2.7?
11 >>>>
12 >>> I install 2.7 on August 10th and removed 2.6 on October 5th.
13 >>>
14 >>>
15 >>> --
16 >>> Neil Bothwick
17 >>>
18 >> Do you recollect whether you ran python-updater immediately after the
19 >> 2.7 emerge, and do you remember whether you set 2.7 as your active
20 >> version 2 python version before or after running python-updater?
21 >>
22 >
23 > My grain of salt of experience from yesterday:
24 > 1. emerged python 2.7 (upon a regular daily update)
25 > 2. eselect switch to 2.7
26 > 3. python-updater (rebuilt about 30 pkgs; all went fine, except pygtk
27 > complained about something apparently minor)
28 > 4. re-emerge pygtk, just to be sure, this time it doesn't complain
29 > 5. unmerge 2.6
30 > 6. there are no traces to be found of python 2.6; everything works
31 >
32 > FWIW, it went fine even on an x86 system, where python-2.7.1-r1 is still
33 > ~arch.
34 >
35 > -rz
36 >
37 >
38
39 I'm in the process of doing this too. So far, so good. 30 out of 53 done.
40
41 Dale
42
43 :-) :-)