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From: John Campbell <jdc.rpv@cox.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] All ~arch users: do not update python
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2010 20:39:23 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C578F6B.8030006@cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1280798427.129304.8.camel@paska>

On 08/02/2010 06:20 PM, Albert Hopkins wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 03:53 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>> Updating python to 2.6.5_p20100801 will break portage.  emerge will stop 
>> working after that and there's no information on how to recover from 
>> that right now (because emerge won't work, you can't downgrade to the 
>> previous, working python version.)
>>
>> Bug for this issue: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330937
>>
> 
> Must not affect all users because it works for me:
> 
> 
> [Orbitrap(84) ~]$ epm -q python
> python-2.5.4-r4
> python-3.1.2_p20100801
> python-2.6.5_p20100801

Do you have the "python3" useflag set?  If so, emerge should be using
python3 not your eselected version.



  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-03  3:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-03  0:53 [gentoo-user] All ~arch users: do not update python Nikos Chantziaras
2010-08-03  1:20 ` Albert Hopkins
2010-08-03  3:39   ` John Campbell [this message]
2010-08-03  4:25     ` Albert Hopkins
2010-08-03  3:33 ` John Campbell
2010-08-03  4:48 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras

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