Re: [gentoo-user] Compilation aborted for setuptools-0.6.12

[Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org>]

meino.cramer@gmx.de writes:

> Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org> [10-06-20 15:16]:

>> How about putting dev-python/setuptools into
>> /etc/portage/package.keywords, and trying to emerge 0.6.13?

> I tried to re-emerge setuptools 0.6.10 and it fails the same way.
> So I believe (=not knowing) that this problem is caused by something
> outside setuptools, which gets screwed up.

Probably python itself, as Arttu pointed out.


> Problem with 0.6.13 is: If it compiles and installs itsself, 0.6.10
> (current version) is gone and cannot get back due to the same problem
> (see above). And then I have a "unstable" version, which may pull in
> other unstable versions of something else, which pull in....

Maybe, but at least in the ebuild itself there are no such dependencies.
If you'd need to keyword this package only, it should do no harm. If
more things need to be keyworded, I agree that this tends to make things
complicated. But at least you can quickpkg the existing version, and get
it back when needed without compiling with emerge -k.
But when 0.6.10 also fails, the problem is likely to be somewhere else.

> This way I have corrupted my last installed gentoo system...

I'm at ~amd64 now, and things are easier now :) At least for me.

If you are desperate: Maybe removing setuptools would at least make
python-updater run through, unless something would pull it in again.
Emerge -k setuptools back. You may be missing stuff for python 3.1, but
maybe this does not harm too much.

And report a bug at bugs.gentoo.org, so the maintainers know what's
going on.

	Wonko