[gentoo-user] python2.4-pyrex not found

[gentoo-user] python2.4-pyrex not found

[Arnaud FARINE]

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Hello,

I must install the package python2.4-pyrex, I didn't find it.
I found only python-pyrex. Same thing for this : python2.4-xml

Could you help me ?

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Arnaud FARINE

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Re: [gentoo-user] python2.4-pyrex not found

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

On Wednesday 14 March 2007 17:28, Arnaud FARINE wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I must install the package python2.4-pyrex, I didn't find it.
> I found only python-pyrex. Same thing for this : python2.4-xml

Some packages happen to have different names, depending on the 
distribution. The names you mention seem to be debian package names.
I don't know python, but I guess that if you have python 2.4 in your 
system (the latest stable version) you just need to install the gentoo 
packages called "pyrex" and "pyxml" (python-pyrex is not a gentoo 
package name).
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Re: [gentoo-user] python2.4-pyrex not found

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

On Wednesday 14 March 2007 18:20, Arnaud FARINE wrote:

> Thanks for your help but...
> The documentation of my app (synce/opensync) indicates to install
> python-pyrex and python2.4-pyrex...strange.!

Well, that just mean that that documentation assumes a debian 
environment.
What are you trying to do? Do you want to install synce and/or 
libopensync? Then, why don't you just emerge synce and libopensync and 
let portage take care of all the dependencies? (btw, I don't see any of 
the packages you mention listed as dependencies of synce and 
libopensync...)
Or are you trying to do something else? The more info you provide, the 
more accurate answers you are likely to get.
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Re: [gentoo-user] python2.4-pyrex not found

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

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On Wednesday 14 March 2007 18:20:40 Arnaud FARINE wrote:
> > > I must install the package python2.4-pyrex, I didn't find it.
> > > I found only python-pyrex. Same thing for this : python2.4-xml
> >
> > Some packages happen to have different names, depending on the
> > distribution. The names you mention seem to be debian package names.
> > I don't know python, but I guess that if you have python 2.4 in your
> > system (the latest stable version) you just need to install the gentoo
> > packages called "pyrex" and "pyxml" (python-pyrex is not a gentoo
> > package name).
>
> Thanks for your help but...
> The documentation of my app (synce/opensync) indicates to install
> python-pyrex and python2.4-pyrex...strange.!

Even python has ABI's that differ between major versions. On a source based 
distro like Gentoo that just means packages like pyrex need to be remerged 
when upgrading e.g. from python 2.4 to 2.5. This is why the python-updater 
script exists.

On binary distros like Debian, however, reinstalling the same binary package 
won't fix anything because it doesn't get recompiled. Therefore they create 
multiple versions of the same package where the only thing that differs is 
the ABI...

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Bo Andresen

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