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On Sunday, November 4, 2018 6:31:53 PM CET Daniel Frey wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> I had an older machine "appliance" (mythtv-frontend) that hadn't had an |
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> update in a while (migrated to 29.1 yesterday/today.) |
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> I searched around on the mailing list as portage advised updating itself |
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> but it got itself in a circular dependency with python and wanted to |
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> install an unstable version of portage as a result, which I didn't want. |
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> After wasting 30 minutes waiting for portage to calculate dependencies |
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> (using --backtrack=1000) I got po'ed and forced python to install using |
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> --nodeps. This worked, I was able to install portage and continue |
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> updating my system from there. |
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> |
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> The problem is there's no more python-updater to make sure that python |
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> is in a sane state. Any suggestions for making sure python is actually |
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> in a sane state? |
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> |
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> Dan |
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I usually do a full rebuild of everything (using --empty) in a chroot and then |
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update using binary packages on the main system if I haven't done an update in |
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a long time. |
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If it's just python you want to be sure of, you can check the "Version |
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upgrade" steps listed on: |
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https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Python |
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