[gentoo-user] [HEADS UP] New kernel version 3.0 breaks build of latest python updates

[gentoo-user] [HEADS UP] New kernel version 3.0 breaks build of latest python updates

[walt]

This will affect (I think) only ~arch users.

If you are running the new linux kernel version 3.0, you will
find that today's update of python will fail with the error
"plat-linux2 not found".

That's because the python configure scripts will detect the
version 3 kernel and will try to use "plat-linux3" instead of
"plat-linux2".

To finish today's update of python2 and python3, just boot
with any kernel-2.6.x and repeat the python update.

Re: [gentoo-user] [HEADS UP] New kernel version 3.0 breaks build of latest python updates

[Dale]

walt wrote:
> This will affect (I think) only ~arch users.
>
> If you are running the new linux kernel version 3.0, you will
> find that today's update of python will fail with the error
> "plat-linux2 not found".
>
> That's because the python configure scripts will detect the
> version 3 kernel and will try to use "plat-linux3" instead of
> "plat-linux2".
>
> To finish today's update of python2 and python3, just boot
> with any kernel-2.6.x and repeat the python update.
>
>
>    

Did you by chance file a roach report?  If so, number or link please.

Sounds like 2.6.40 may have been a better idea.  lol

Dale

:-)  :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] [HEADS UP] New kernel version 3.0 breaks build of latest python updates

[Alan McKinnon]

On Saturday 23 July 2011 16:32:39 Dale did opine thusly:
> walt wrote:
> > This will affect (I think) only ~arch users.
> > 
> > If you are running the new linux kernel version 3.0, you will
> > find that today's update of python will fail with the error
> > "plat-linux2 not found".
> > 
> > That's because the python configure scripts will detect the
> > version 3 kernel and will try to use "plat-linux3" instead of
> > "plat-linux2".
> > 
> > To finish today's update of python2 and python3, just boot
> > with any kernel-2.6.x and repeat the python update.
> 
> Did you by chance file a roach report?  If so, number or link
> please.
> 
> Sounds like 2.6.40 may have been a better idea.  lol

Dear god, no!

May I point your attention over to portage so you can see for yourself 
how silly that can get? 100 _rc versions and currently at 46 _alphas. 
It's starting to look like svn commit numbers would be a better number 
scheme :-)

Maintainers everywhere will simply have to update their install 
scripts (the usual point of failure for something like this) and it 
will be mostly fixed everywhere in about a fortnight.


-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] [HEADS UP] New kernel version 3.0 breaks build of latest python updates

[Dale]

Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Saturday 23 July 2011 16:32:39 Dale did opine thusly:
>    
>> walt wrote:
>>      
>>> This will affect (I think) only ~arch users.
>>>
>>> If you are running the new linux kernel version 3.0, you will
>>> find that today's update of python will fail with the error
>>> "plat-linux2 not found".
>>>
>>> That's because the python configure scripts will detect the
>>> version 3 kernel and will try to use "plat-linux3" instead of
>>> "plat-linux2".
>>>
>>> To finish today's update of python2 and python3, just boot
>>> with any kernel-2.6.x and repeat the python update.
>>>        
>> Did you by chance file a roach report?  If so, number or link
>> please.
>>
>> Sounds like 2.6.40 may have been a better idea.  lol
>>      
> Dear god, no!
>
> May I point your attention over to portage so you can see for yourself
> how silly that can get? 100 _rc versions and currently at 46 _alphas.
> It's starting to look like svn commit numbers would be a better number
> scheme :-)
>
> Maintainers everywhere will simply have to update their install
> scripts (the usual point of failure for something like this) and it
> will be mostly fixed everywhere in about a fortnight.
>
>
>    


Looks like they could have went to 2.6.99 then.  ;-)

Dale

:-)  :-)

[gentoo-user] Re: [HEADS UP] New kernel version 3.0 breaks build of latest python updates

[walt]

On 07/23/2011 02:09 PM, walt wrote:

> To finish today's update of python2 and python3, just boot
> with any kernel-2.6.x and repeat the python update.

Well, not just any kernel-2.6.x.  Python needs the kernel sources
for your 2.6.x kernel to be installed and configured.  And (maybe)
needs the /usr/src/linux symlink to point at the 2.6 sources, but
I'm not sure of that last point.