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-121956-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org>) id 1QEKse-0005LQ-HQ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2011 12:27:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8F8591C097; Mon, 25 Apr 2011 12:25:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.muc.de (colin.muc.de [193.149.48.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B4B51C097 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Mon, 25 Apr 2011 12:25:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 34345 invoked by uid 3782); 25 Apr 2011 12:25:47 -0000 Received: from acm.muc.de (pD9557378.dip.t-dialin.net [217.85.115.120]) by colin2.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Mon, 25 Apr 2011 14:25:46 +0200 Received: (qmail 4652 invoked by uid 1000); 25 Apr 2011 12:11:53 -0000 Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 12:11:53 +0000 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!] Message-ID: <20110425121153.GB4594@acm.acm> References: <20110422180508.GA17715@acm.acm> <201104240917.55879.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <20110424132558.GA30389@acm.acm> <201104241644.32602.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: <201104241644.32602.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: e0f08eb8935344c8dbee65e7c1718ef8 Hi, Mick. On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 04:44:05PM +0100, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 24 April 2011 14:25:58 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > 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: > > > 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? > 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. > You need to do this next. DONE. > > > 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. > At this stage you should only run: > python-updater -v > Nothing else. > Once it completes you can run --depclean which will ask you to remove > the older 2.6 python package. I had to (or, at least, did) run emerge -uND @world. Funnily enough, it ran to completion without manual intervention. :-) I'd like to run --depclean, but it's threatening to remove my 2.6.31-r6 kernel sources, which correspond to my working kernel. What's the easiest way to protect these from --depclean? > -- > Regards, > Mick -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).