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 ) id 1QE1Zr-0007fe-SU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 24 Apr 2011 15:50:34 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A46E71C00B; Sun, 24 Apr 2011 15:48:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 593D31C00B for ; Sun, 24 Apr 2011 15:48:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyi11 with SMTP id 11so1692071wyi.40 for ; Sun, 24 Apr 2011 08:48:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent :references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=pmWIzzus/BSaLe5b/RGGPexPPc3D0XNN7L4BTVNx2Mc=; b=b6dD07S7p2/ZgJ3hwxoqmMPaJ4j7vfZWyO2RzlG9Q+xjkbt15jGbKvm9sfHWiQRGSs pBkAnRBREjCbCF6pbSkGmYg/2UotZRl9qhkVpM69A6hkUJpIOHiNGX5yChC6VIcCuJsH ZCeY9zd9luHV9cclgYryAWVroXwhNAxLqyIwg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=jSxwWcgvp5Mq0+Mw+Qx+pQHghTAU4a6GQqy4HJKqehLlzilR6fcvKmRJ957cQbubKT pveP9g70bCcEjVrSx3HWV+n363B+JF5oyYBPwYFzSf0L9jSjNzHihKXsT+CHPKEsBgRG 0j3xN4WesJ23SwF5lm5mYGi5g9AoAlY/gxWRY= Received: by 10.216.145.206 with SMTP id p56mr2529701wej.80.1303660091537; Sun, 24 Apr 2011 08:48:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dell_xps.localnet (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id u9sm2814536wbg.0.2011.04.24.08.48.10 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 24 Apr 2011 08:48:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!] Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 16:48:39 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.37-gentoo-r4; KDE/4.4.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <20110422180508.GA17715@acm.acm> <20110424132558.GA30389@acm.acm> <201104241644.32602.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201104241644.32602.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart20071063.cy9fbSjgL4"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201104241648.40281.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: e9da0b79d69cf2908baf2356ac4a8eb4 --nextPart20071063.cy9fbSjgL4 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sunday 24 April 2011 16:44:05 Mick wrote: > On Sunday 24 April 2011 14:25:58 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Hi, Mick. > >=20 > > 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: > > > > >=20 > > > > > # eselect python list > > > >=20 > > > > Available Python interpreters: > > > > [1] python2.6 * > > > > [2] python2.7 > > > > [3] python3.1 > > >=20 > > > OK, the next stage would be to change your python to the latest stabl= e: > > >=20 > > > eselect python set 2 > >=20 > > DONE. > >=20 > > > and then remerge those packages that were linked against the old > > > python: > > >=20 > > > python-updater -v -p > > >=20 > > > to get a list of these. > >=20 > > That gives me a list of 24 packages. Am I meant to actually run > > python-updater without the -p, here? >=20 > That's correct. As the man emerge say -p stands for --pretend. Just to > give a chance to see what it wants to do and think about it before you run > it again without it for execution. >=20 > You need to do this next. >=20 > > > When you finish all this you can run: > > >=20 > > > emerge --depclean -v -p > > >=20 > > > It should now ask you to remove the old python, but check carefully t= he > > > remaining packages in case something important is in the list and > > > breaks your system. > >=20 > > 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. >=20 > At this stage you should only run: >=20 > python-updater -v >=20 > Nothing else. >=20 > Once it completes you can run --depclean which will ask you to remove the > older 2.6 python package. >=20 > > How come? Well, I started my installation in February 2010, and with o= ne > > 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 ev= en > > a new installation CD). This would surely leave my home directory and > > suchlike untouched. What do you think? >=20 > Adding the -N flag will remerge any packages that are affected by changes > to USE flags that you have made since they were first installed. So the > list will be longer than without it. Post any blockers shown if you don't know what you need to do about them. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart20071063.cy9fbSjgL4 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAk20RlgACgkQVTDTR3kpaLYgwgCeIGV/MCfHc9uMVfmyxMGmrIgk bHYAn28jPC8MwApgquYSPVtrUay2COEQ =Q8s7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart20071063.cy9fbSjgL4--