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From: John Campbell <jdc.rpv@×××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] All ~arch users: do not update python
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 03:40:07
Message-Id: 4C578F6B.8030006@cox.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] All ~arch users: do not update python by Albert Hopkins
1 On 08/02/2010 06:20 PM, Albert Hopkins wrote:
2 > On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 03:53 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
3 >> Updating python to 2.6.5_p20100801 will break portage. emerge will stop
4 >> working after that and there's no information on how to recover from
5 >> that right now (because emerge won't work, you can't downgrade to the
6 >> previous, working python version.)
7 >>
8 >> Bug for this issue: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330937
9 >>
10 >
11 > Must not affect all users because it works for me:
12 >
13 >
14 > [Orbitrap(84) ~]$ epm -q python
15 > python-2.5.4-r4
16 > python-3.1.2_p20100801
17 > python-2.6.5_p20100801
18
19 Do you have the "python3" useflag set? If so, emerge should be using
20 python3 not your eselected version.

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Re: [gentoo-user] All ~arch users: do not update python Albert Hopkins <marduk@×××××××××××.org>