Re: [gentoo-user] python-2.7 && python-updater

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 26 March 2011 19:10:12 Mark Knecht wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
>> > On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 20:09:50 +0100, Stéphane Guedon wrote:
>> >> I think wicd rely on python 2.6 currently. This is my setup on my
>> >> laptop ! (trying other version break networking with wicd).
>> >
>> > Wicd works fine with 2.7. There was a problem when 2,7 was first
>> > released, but that was fixed in a Wicd update.
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Neil Bothwick
>>
>> I've been through this 2.7 update process on 4 machines now. It seems
>> on all of my machines the python-updater thing is pretty much always
>> broken with respect to:
>>
>> openoffice-bin
>> boost
>> emul-linux-x86-baselibs
>>
>> No matter how many times I rerun things it just wants to keep rebuilding
>> them.
>>
>> What's weird is that no two machine see exactly the same. Some only
>> fail with one of those packages, others fail with 2 or 3. Rerunning
>> phython-updater, or lafilefixer, or revdep-rebuild or removing them
>> completely and letting emerge -DuN @world reinstall them changes
>> nothing. They just go on failing the same way.
>>
>> Waste of time so far...
>
> If you machines are running stable arch there was also this that came up
> today:
>
> revdep-rebuild -v --library 'libmpfr.so.1' -- --ask
>
> Check your elog in case there are some more packages that need revdep-rebuild.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Mick
>

I had nothing linked to libmpfr.so.1 so that wasn't the root cause/

In my case it seems to be driven by bugs like this:

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=360425

Seems the only thing to do it just wait for devs to fix it. (And
wonder why something like python-2.7 gets released as stable with
stuff like this hanging about....)

Cheers,
Mark