I've just updated from python-2.5 to 2.6.  Since emerge ran fine, I
ran python-updater.  It's encountering problems with lots of
packages.  For example, "emerge -1 setuptools" ends with:

########## begin emerge output ##########

copying build/lib/pkg_resources.py -> /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages
ACCESS DENIED
open_wr:   /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/pkg_resources.py
error: /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/pkg_resources.py: Permission
denied
 * 
 * ERROR: dev-python/setuptools-0.6_rc8-r1 failed.
 * Call stack:
 * ebuild.sh, line   49:  Called src_install
 * environment, line 2445:  Called distutils_src_install
 * environment, line  724:  Called die
 * The specific snippet of code:
 * ${python} setup.py install --root="${D}" --no-compile "$@" || die
"python setup.py install failed";
 * The die message:
 * python setup.py install failed
 * 
 * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call
stack if relevant.
 * A complete build log is located at
'/var/log/portage/dev-python:setuptools-0.6_rc8-r1:20081021-133932.log'.
 * The ebuild environment file is located at
'/var/tmp/portage/dev-python/setuptools-0.6_rc8-r1/temp/environment'.
 * 
--------------------------- ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY
--------------------------- LOG FILE =
"/var/log/sandbox/sandbox-32513.log"

open_wr:   /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/pkg_resources.py
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

>>> Failed to emerge dev-python/setuptools-0.6_rc8-r1, Log file:

>>>  '/var/log/portage/dev-python:setuptools-0.6_rc8-r1:20081021-133932.log'

 * GNU info directory index is up-to-date.

########## end emerge output ##########

This looks like a permissions problem
in /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/.  I normally run emerge as
'relson', but this time I ran emerge as 'root' -- so I don't think
it's a simple permissions problem.

Has anybody else emerge python-2.6 and run python-updater?  Any idea
of what I may be doing wrong?  Is it time to head for bgo?

Regards,

David