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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: All ~arch users: do not update python
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 07:48:59 +0300
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On 08/03/2010 03:53 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> Updating python to 2.6.5_p20100801 will break portage.  emerge will stop
> working after that and there's no information on how to recover from
> that right now (because emerge won't work, you can't downgrade to the
> previous, working python version.)
>
> Bug for this issue: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330937

An easy way to repair a broken system has been posted:

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330937#c15