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On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 20:38 +0000, James wrote: |
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> Albert Hopkins <marduk <at> letterboxes.org> writes: |
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> > Perhaps you can run strace (or bash -x) on it to see where it's hanging. |
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> Oh, I would not know the syntax. No man page for strace. more info? |
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> syntax suggestions? The machine hoses everytime I run python-update. |
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Probably no man page because it's likely not installed. |
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# emerge strace |
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But the generic way of running it is |
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# strace python-updater |
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> > > # eselect python list |
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> > > !!! Error: Can't load module python |
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> > Probably because there is no eselect module for python installed (there |
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> > isn't one on any my machines). |
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> Right, so now I installed it and it says: |
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> Available python interpreters: |
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> [1] python2.4 |
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> [2] python2.5 * |
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> So why does python-updater have to be used at all? |
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> Everything else seems fine.... |
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The python-updater and eselect module do completely different things. |
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All the eselect module probably does is update a |
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symlink: /usr/bin/python => python2.5. What python-updater is supposed |
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to do is take all the packages that were emerged against python2.4 and |
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re-emerge them agains python2.5. Basically what it does is identify all |
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the files in /usr/lib/python-<oldversion>/site-packages, associates them |
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with packages and re-emerges those packages. It's a shell script so |
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running: |
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# bash -x /usr/sbin/python-updater |
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should give you some indication as to where it's hanging. |
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Hope this helps. |
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-a |
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