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Khanh Nguyen schrieb: |
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> Hi Florian. |
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> ** (Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 06:44:27PM +0200) Florian Philipp wrote: |
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>> Hi! |
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>> This is actually a follow-up for my thread "Trouble installing Plone". |
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>> Following scenario: I have packages which run on python-2.4 and other |
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>> packages which work with 2.5. Zope is a prominent example of the 2.4 gang. |
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>> The problem: When I emerge a python package, for example |
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>> dev-python/imaging, it is only installed in the |
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>> /usr/lib/python-2.*/site-packages directory of the python version which |
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>> is currently enabled by eselect. |
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>> Naturally, this is the most recent version: 2.5. However, as soon as a |
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>> python-2.4 package depends on one of these other packages, it just |
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>> doesn't work because it expects them in /usr/lib/python-2.4/site-packages. |
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>> How am I supposed to work around this? |
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> With regards to Zope and Plone, use python2.5 but have python2.4 installed |
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> and use buildout[1] to fetch Zope/Plone. |
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> Zope needs python2.4 with PIL. A quick fix, is to either symlink or |
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> copy /usr/lib/python-2.5/site-packages/PIL* to /usr/lib/python-2.4/site-packages/ |
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> You also need dev-libs/libxml2 (with python) and symlink/copy to |
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> /usr/lib/python-2.4/site-packages/{libxml2*,drv_libxml2} |
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Thanks for the hint! Interestingly, zope works without such a |
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symlink/copy at the moment. Maybe it isn't needed for the tasks I've |
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done so far? |
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> |
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> When Python dependencies are in place, you can use buildout to fetch Zope/Plone |
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> For this you need dev-python/setuptools. |
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> PS! When following the guide[1], remember to bootstrap and buildout with python2.4. |
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> eg: python2.4 bootstrap.py && python2.4 ./bin/buildout |
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> PSS! If you use sudo and have a restrictive umask for your user, you need to lower |
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> it to eg 022 before creating the buildout enviroment. |
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Thanks for your answer but I have to say, this looks like a really |
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cumbersome workaround. Wouldn't it be better to make portage and |
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python-updater aware of this problem? |
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The update from python-2.4 to 2.5 was a minor one with only a few |
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incompatible packages. What shall happen when we stabilize 3.0? We'll |
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run into orders of magnitude more problems than we did till now if we |
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keep it as it is! |
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Do you think I should open a bug for this? |
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