On Saturday 26 March 2011 19:10:12 Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> > On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 20:09:50 +0100, Stéphane Guedon wrote:
> >> I think wicd rely on python 2.6 currently. This is my setup on my
> >> laptop ! (trying other version break networking with wicd).
> > 
> > Wicd works fine with 2.7. There was a problem when 2,7 was first
> > released, but that was fixed in a Wicd update.
> > 
> > 
> > --
> > Neil Bothwick
> 
> I've been through this 2.7 update process on 4 machines now. It seems
> on all of my machines the python-updater thing is pretty much always
> broken with respect to:
> 
> openoffice-bin
> boost
> emul-linux-x86-baselibs
> 
> No matter how many times I rerun things it just wants to keep rebuilding
> them.
> 
> What's weird is that no two machine see exactly the same. Some only
> fail with one of those packages, others fail with 2 or 3. Rerunning
> phython-updater, or lafilefixer, or revdep-rebuild or removing them
> completely and letting emerge -DuN @world reinstall them changes
> nothing. They just go on failing the same way.
> 
> Waste of time so far...

If you machines are running stable arch there was also this that came up 
today:

revdep-rebuild -v --library 'libmpfr.so.1' -- --ask

Check your elog in case there are some more packages that need revdep-rebuild.

-- 
Regards,
Mick