On Wednesday 12 October 2005 07:39, Dave Nebinger wrote: > On Wednesday 12 October 2005 12:58 am, Francesco Talamona wrote: > > Yesterday, after python update (dev-lang/python-2.4.1-r1), emerge > > refused to work, I had to comment both lines in > > /etc/portage/modules and reemerge dev-python/python-cdb. > > > > It wasn't a stopper, but it worth mention. > > That was the part I mentioned earlier. I think if you caught the > note to run python-updater after the python upgrade it would have > covered this. I missed both your point and the note during emerge :-)
> Basically what happens is that, without running python-updater, > you've got a number of python packages installed in > /usr/lib/python-2.3/site-packages (or something like that). > > After the python 2.4 upgrade, those packages are no longer available, > as 2.4 is looking for them in /usr/lib/python-2.4/site-packages (or > whatever). > > Running python-updater is supposed to get those old guys moved from > 2.3 to 2.4 so everything works. > > Unfortunately if that message about running python-updater floats by > in the middle of updating a bunch of packages it is easy to miss, and > before you know it you think your system is majorly screwed. Luckily I wasn't scared and recovered my system in 3 minutes. I was checking what packages would be installed with a new program when emerge stopped to work; in the meantime in another shell world update was still running happily. It was very easy to find out the guilty one :-) Now python-updater is running, it found a lot to do... > I posted a message to gentoo-dev asking for an enhancement to portage > that would collect the messages generated in the pkg_postinstall > phase and re-report them after all packages have completed. > Fortunately it is already an enhancement that is on the list, but > it's not clear when it will be released. In the meantime I'm going > to check out ENOTICE > http://dev.gentoo.org/~eldad/ to see if it will work as a short-term > solution. This matter is a long lasting request, IMHO it is come the time for Gentoo to make this evolutive step. I saw other source-based distros making an HTML file of compiler output long ago: when you install something only important messages are outputted, all the details are easily readable with a browser. But it is just one of the several possible ways to manage this important feature. Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.12-gentoo-r9, Compiled #2 Wed Aug 24 18:43:16 CEST 2005 One 2.2GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processor, 2GB RAM, 4308.99 Bogomips Total aemaeth -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
