From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KJWY5-0002IE-DQ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:41:45 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 740EFE0485; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:41:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fmailhost02.isp.att.net (fmailhost02.isp.att.net [207.115.11.52]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40EDDE0485 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:41:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [216.78.71.190] (host-216-78-71-190.jan.bellsouth.net[216.78.71.190]) by isp.att.net (frfwmhc02) with ESMTP id <20080717164141H02000ujake>; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:41:42 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [216.78.71.190] Message-ID: <487F7644.6040508@bellsouth.net> Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:41:40 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.15) Gecko/20080705 SeaMonkey/1.1.10 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Unmerge python? References: <49bf44f10807170904x7b466439k2758668e02ca308a@mail.gmail.com> <487F717E.7080206@j-schmitz.net> <49bf44f10807170935o4c9b69der265f17d164e8487@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10807170935o4c9b69der265f17d164e8487@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 7906bacc-cdaa-4048-8620-511cc9904cfe X-Archives-Hash: 0218dfe669eaa64b75d02fc9cee0188c Grant wrote: >>> I'm getting the following from portage on a critical remote system: >>> >>> >> app-admin/python-updater-0.2) >>> >>> Am I suppose to un-emerge python? >>> >>> - Grant >>> >>> >> Perhaps you should update your python. Version 2.3 will be removed from >> portage and is currently hardmasked. That triggers the depency bump. >> > > 'emerge -pv python' wants to install python-2.5.2-r5 in a new slot. > Should I unmerge python, emerge the new python, and run > python-updater? Will portage work once python has been unmerged? I'm > being cautious because this is a highly critical system for me. > > - Grant > If memory serves me correct, update python with the new slot, run python-updater and then you should be able to unmerge the old python. I would double check to make sure nothing depends on the old one before removing it tho. Python is something you do not want to be without. I seem to recall that portage uses python so removing it would be . . . 'bad'. As was mentioned in another thread, you can set it up so that portage will save a copy of your packages just in case. You can set it to do them all or just the system ones. I think everybody should have it set to at least system. Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list