Re: [gentoo-user] Installing python-2.6

[Guillaume Poulin <poulin.guillaume@gmail.com>]

Thanks, you make my life easier.

2015-04-23 15:18 GMT-04:00 Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>:
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 3:08 PM, Guillaume Poulin
> <poulin.guillaume@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm currently contributing to a python project still supporting python
>> 2.6. Since python 2.6 is no more in portage tree, I currently have no
>> way to run the unit tests locally.
>>
>> Is there an easy way to install python 2.6? I don't need other
>> packages support for python 2.6, just a python 2.6 installation with
>> pip and virtualenv, so I can run the unit tests locally.
>>
>
> I added python-2.6.9 back to the portage tree, but empty KEYWORDS.
>
> Sync your portage tree in around an hour and add the following to
> package.keywords:
>
> ~dev-lang/python-2.6.9 **
>