From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from <gentoo-user+bounces-121940-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org>) id 1QDzYu-0000Ic-Fd for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 24 Apr 2011 13:41:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 556C71C00A; Sun, 24 Apr 2011 13:39:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.muc.de (colin.muc.de [193.149.48.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D454D1C00A for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Sun, 24 Apr 2011 13:39:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 41714 invoked by uid 3782); 24 Apr 2011 13:39:54 -0000 Received: from acm.muc.de (pD9556B4B.dip.t-dialin.net [217.85.107.75]) by colin2.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Sun, 24 Apr 2011 15:39:52 +0200 Received: (qmail 25030 invoked by uid 1000); 24 Apr 2011 13:25:58 -0000 Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 13:25:58 +0000 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!] Message-ID: <20110424132558.GA30389@acm.acm> References: <20110422180508.GA17715@acm.acm> <201104232046.40140.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <20110423200625.GB18788@acm.acm> <201104240917.55879.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201104240917.55879.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.5 (Fettercairn) From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 7b73e8388c0055df42436c6f00e45f95 Hi, Mick. On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 09:17:45AM +0100, Mick wrote: > On Saturday 23 April 2011 21:06:25 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 08:46:30PM +0100, Mick wrote: > > > What do you get when you run: > > > # eselect python list > > Available Python interpreters: > > [1] python2.6 * > > [2] python2.7 > > [3] python3.1 > OK, the next stage would be to change your python to the latest stable: > eselect python set 2 DONE. > and then remerge those packages that were linked against the old > python: > python-updater -v -p > to get a list of these. That gives me a list of 24 packages. Am I meant to actually run python-updater without the -p, here? > When you finish all this you can run: > emerge --depclean -v -p > It should now ask you to remove the old python, but check carefully the > remaining packages in case something important is in the list and > breaks your system. I do emerge --depclean -v -p. It says I should run emerge -uDN @world first. I'm a bit apprehensive about this, since the world update says it would reemerge 138 packages (I'm not sure whether this is top-level (whatever that means) packages or the real total). In that list are 3 blockages I don't know wha do do with. My experience suggests this will not work smoothly, and I'll likely be left with a non-working (or even a non-bootable) system. How come? Well, I started my installation in February 2010, and with one thing and another, didn't get it finished, so it went into cold storage until a month ago. I've had so much trouble trying to get updated, that it might be better to start again from scratch with a new stage3 (or even a new installation CD). This would surely leave my home directory and suchlike untouched. What do you think? > -- > Regards, > Mick -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).