[gentoo-user] unable to do world update --problem may be caused by mailman

[gentoo-user] unable to do world update --problem may be caused by mailman

[John Covici]

Hi.  In trying to do my world update today, I ran into the following
problem which I am not sure how to solve.

I got the following:

The first thing I got was that there was no ebuilds to satisfy
dev-python/dnspython  so I copied an ebuild which I installed about 3
weeks ago to my local ebuilds and made a manifest for it and now I get
the following:

emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy
"dev-python/dnspython[python_targets_python2_7(-)]".
(dependency required by "net-mail/mailman-2.1.33::gentoo" [installed])
(dependency required by "@selected" [set])
(dependency required by "@world" [argument])
In the ebuild, python27 is not listed in the python_compat list, so I
am puzzled as to how I did manage to install it at all.

So, since mailman 2.1.33 seems to be the latest version in the tree
and I have heard on other lists that mailman 3 is not ready for prime
time, I am put in a dilema -- I certainly want to be able to update my
system, but keep this version of mailman till the new version is
ready.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

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Re: [gentoo-user] unable to do world update --problem may be caused by mailman

[Arve Barsnes]

On Sun, 6 Dec 2020 at 22:28, John Covici <covici@ccs.covici.com> wrote:
> So, since mailman 2.1.33 seems to be the latest version in the tree

The opposite seems to be true? 2.1.33 was removed from the tree in
September, and the latest version in the tree is 3.3.2. It is only
keyworded ~amd64 though, so I expect your problem here is that you run
a stable setup.

Either you need to keep local copies of the old mailman ebuild, as
well as its dependencies, or you need to keyword the new version.

Regards,
Arve

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to do world update --problem may be caused by mailman

[John Covici]

On Sun, 06 Dec 2020 16:57:46 -0500,
Arve Barsnes wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 6 Dec 2020 at 22:28, John Covici <covici@ccs.covici.com> wrote:
> > So, since mailman 2.1.33 seems to be the latest version in the tree
> 
> The opposite seems to be true? 2.1.33 was removed from the tree in
> September, and the latest version in the tree is 3.3.2. It is only
> keyworded ~amd64 though, so I expect your problem here is that you run
> a stable setup.
> 
> Either you need to keep local copies of the old mailman ebuild, as
> well as its dependencies, or you need to keyword the new version.

hmmm, I am running a ~ setup, but I do need to keep mailman, so how to
tell which packages to keep, exactly?

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Re: [gentoo-user] unable to do world update --problem may be caused by mailman

[Arve Barsnes]

On Mon, 7 Dec 2020 at 00:11, John Covici <covici@ccs.covici.com> wrote:
> hmmm, I am running a ~ setup, but I do need to keep mailman, so how to
> tell which packages to keep, exactly?

Then you should be able to update to the latest version in the tree?
Maybe you have masked newer versions somewhere? Maybe there's a manual
upgrade job that you've put off until you had time.

Regards,
Arve

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to do world update --problem may be caused by mailman

[tastytea]

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On 2020-12-07 08:11+0100 Arve Barsnes <arve.barsnes@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 7 Dec 2020 at 00:11, John Covici <covici@ccs.covici.com>
> wrote:
> > hmmm, I am running a ~ setup, but I do need to keep mailman, so how
> > to tell which packages to keep, exactly?  
> 
> Then you should be able to update to the latest version in the tree?
> Maybe you have masked newer versions somewhere? Maybe there's a manual
> upgrade job that you've put off until you had time.

The upgrade is not gonna be easy: <https://bugs.gentoo.org/710134#c2>.

There is a repo with mailman2 + dependencies, but that is only intended
for a short timeframe: <https://github.com/hannob/mailman2-overlay>.

Kind regards, tastytea

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Re: [gentoo-user] unable to do world update --problem may be caused by mailman

[John Covici]

On Mon, 07 Dec 2020 02:11:20 -0500,
Arve Barsnes wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 7 Dec 2020 at 00:11, John Covici <covici@ccs.covici.com> wrote:
> > hmmm, I am running a ~ setup, but I do need to keep mailman, so how to
> > tell which packages to keep, exactly?
> 
> Then you should be able to update to the latest version in the tree?
> Maybe you have masked newer versions somewhere? Maybe there's a manual
> upgrade job that you've put off until you had time.

I updated a month ago with no problems but I cannot update now.  If I
remove the ebuild I have from my local ebuild repository and just try
to do it plain, I get the following:

emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy
"dev-python/dnspython[python_targets_python2_7(-)]".
(dependency required by "net-mail/mailman-2.1.33::gentoo" [installed])
(dependency required by "@selected" [set])
(dependency required by "@world" [argument])


Should I change the ebuild so the compat line includes python27?.


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