From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KN8dI-0005Vh-7u for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:58:04 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C2109E043E; Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:58:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D5E3E043E for ; Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:58:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3933264E49 for ; Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:58:01 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -1.22 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.22 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.312, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1, RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO=2.067] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id CXHMGZlcjW3V for ; Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:57:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85154658CC for ; Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:57:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KN8d1-0003Ti-Uc for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:57:48 +0000 Received: from 67.220.12.83 ([67.220.12.83]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:57:47 +0000 Received: from grante by 67.220.12.83 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:57:47 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: dev-lang/python-2.3.6-r2 (is blocking app-admin/python-updater-0.5 Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:57:37 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <5bdc1c8b0807261536q5f71fbedxdf7a12eefe248322@mail.gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0807261751lb052cecl7e4421145ea9cabf@mail.gmail.com> <488BCCD6.9070203@bellsouth.net> <5bdc1c8b0807261834v4e1da54dw7e70bf8e533317f@mail.gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0807261846s2870baabl70b12b9bcc058198@mail.gmail.com> <488BD951.3020004@bellsouth.net> <5bdc1c8b0807261915k721fd67y27a57e01dc8c7eb2@mail.gmail.com> <488BDBFF.6070607@bellsouth.net> <5bdc1c8b0807270812lfffca87i36dd96e934dd9241@mail.gmail.com> X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.220.12.83 User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1pl1 (Linux) Sender: news Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Archives-Salt: 54a46d28-827a-43ac-9df0-b983e6d40f84 X-Archives-Hash: 7995788033834aa9e14be583b4844f3f On 2008-07-27, Qian Qiao wrote: > On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> [snip] > > The root of the problem is really quite simple, you have a system with > a python version python-updater doesn't like. The solution is actually > quite simple: > > step 1. update python to 2.5, rebuild cracklib (afaik cracklib is the > only system package that requires python), portage, gentookit. > step 2. at this point, you can unmerge the old python, some packages > *will* break, but you will still have a console that works fine, and > your portage is built against the 2.5. > step 3. emerge python-updater, since no python-2.3 is present, it'll > emerge happily. > step 4. run python-updater > step 5. voila And remember than "emerge -u" only works well if you do it regularly (at least once every couple weeks) In my experience, if you haven't upgraded in 6 months or more, it's usually a lot simpler and faster to do a reinstall. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! I just had a NOSE at JOB!! visi.com