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On Fri, Nov 01 2013, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On 01/11/2013 15:41, gottlieb@×××.edu wrote: |
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>> On Thu, Oct 31 2013, gottlieb@×××.edu wrote: |
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>>> On Sun, Oct 27 2013, Mike Gilbert wrote: |
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>>>> Making things "just work" is complex when trying to juggle 6 or more |
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>>>> supported versions/implementations of python. |
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>>> Indeed. |
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>>>> We have tried to explain the magic make.conf lines in the Python user guide. |
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>>>> https://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/Python/python-r1/user-guide.xml |
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>>>> We also try to make sure that most users never have to touch |
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>>>> PYTHON_TARGETS, etc; the default values provided by your profile are |
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>>>> set up to allow *stable* python2.7 and python3.2 to work properly. |
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>>>> ~arch users are expected to read the docs. ^_^ |
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>>> I am a ~amd64 user and I just read the user-guide. :-) |
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>>> I do not see any action items for my system; but do see a large number |
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>>> of reinstalls proposed by emerge |
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>>> I do not change any python variables in make.conf so emerge --info shows |
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>>> PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" |
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>>> PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_2" |
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>>> a recursive grep -i for python in /etc/portage yields only |
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>>> ./package.use/imaging-pillow:5:virtual/python-imaging |
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>>> -python_targets_python3_2 |
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>>> So I basically have the default except for the imaging/pillow business. |
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>>> I note that update world wants to rebuild a bunch of packages (the |
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>>> entire output is below). Some are qt-related others involve |
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>>> PYTHON_TARGETS. |
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>>> Does this mean that I can let the 44 packages / 38 reinstalls update occur |
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>>> and expect a running system to result? It is unusual, but I realize not |
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>>> unprecedented, to have so many reinstalls and I would like to confirm |
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>>> that this is expected. |
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>>> thanks, |
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>>> allan |
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>> I realize that I forgot to attach the list of packages emerge wants to |
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>> reinstall. So I did the same emerge command (I always use --ask) and |
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>> they are *gone*. This I don't understand since I didn't sync inbetween |
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>> (ls -lt /usr/portage shows nothing since wednesday). |
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>> I though all dependencies, etc are resolved locally so why would it |
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>> change from 44 packages with 38 reinstalls to 4 packages with no |
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>> reinstalls? |
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> Did you make any changes to make.conf between your previous mail and |
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> doing this last test? |
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Good question, but no. |
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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 709 Sep 18 14:58 /etc/portage/make.conf |
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allan |