Re: [gentoo-user] python 2.6 and mailman

[John covici]

on Wednesday 05/06/2009 Neil Bothwick(neil@××××××××××.uk) wrote
 > On Wed, 6 May 2009 05:06:51 -0400, John covici wrote:
 > 
 > > Hi.  I upgraded to python 2.6 -- at the time I didn't know that this
 > > would break mailman, buut there is a version of mailman compatible
 > > with 2.6 -- is there any ebuild for this?  I doubt it would be
 > > possible todowngrade to 2.5 -- at least not without great difficult.
 > > Please correct me if I am wrong in any of this, but the easiest thing
 > > would be to get a version of mailman compatible with 2.6.
 > 
 > There is a bug filed for this, so an updated ebuild should appear
 > shortly. Meanwhile, what's wrong with installing Python 2.5? It's
 > slotted, so you can have 2.5 and 2.6 installed together, or simply switch
 > back to 2.5 until a new mailman ebuild is released. Or is there a reason
 > you really need 2.6?

The question is, I would not mind switching back to 2.5, but how do I
do this -- I had to run pythonupdater to switch from 2.5 to 2.6, what
is the procedure to do the reverse?

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         John Covici
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