On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
On Wed, 27 May 2009 16:28:35 -0400, Wyatt Epp wrote:
You know, I wonder if that's not a bug? There is no eselect module for
setting your python version,
U
% eselect python help
Manage the /usr/bin/python and
--- On Mon, 25/5/09, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote:
From: Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ARGH I uninstalled python
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Date: Monday, 25 May, 2009, 12:34 AM
On 24 May 2009, at 21:41, Neil Bothwick wrote
On Wed, 27 May 2009 01:32:13 -0700 (PDT), Jon Hardcastle wrote:
But I was EXPECTING portage to not let me do something that would stop
the 'solution' (and that is what it is whether at the portage or the
gentoo level) working.
Gentoo provides the gun, it does not prevent you pointing at your
On Wed, 27 May 2009 01:32:13 -0700 (PDT)
Jon Hardcastle jd_hardcas...@yahoo.com wrote:
I'd hope that if anyone else comes a cropper by this then at least this conv
will help them! But I was EXPECTING portage to not let me do something that
would stop the 'solution' (and that is what it is
On Sat, 23 May 2009 19:08:50 -0300
Jorge Morais please.no.spam.h...@gmail.com wrote:
One idea: you can can recompile python with a safe
prefix (such as a subdir of your home), issue make install (not as root,
for increased safety) and see where Python install its files relative to
the prefix,
On 27 May 2009, at 09:32, Jon Hardcastle wrote:
...
As the guy that started this thread I am testimony to this problem.
I now have a tainted (albeit only slightly) system as my main server
at home!
This whole problem came about because I wanted to install truecrypt
(another powder keg!)
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Jorge Morais please.no.spam.h...@gmail.com
wrote:
I should mention that you should be careful about deleting any files -
and qfile is not a 100% guarantee that the file does not come from a
Portage-installed package. For example, in my system Python was
On Wed, 27 May 2009 16:28:35 -0400
Wyatt Epp wyatt@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Jorge Morais please.no.spam.h...@gmail.com
wrote:
I should mention that you should be careful about deleting any files -
and qfile is not a 100% guarantee that the file does not come
On Wed, 27 May 2009 16:28:35 -0400, Wyatt Epp wrote:
You know, I wonder if that's not a bug? There is no eselect module for
setting your python version,
U
% eselect python help
Manage the /usr/bin/python and python.1 man symlinks.
Usage: eselect python action options
Standard actions:
On Sat, 23 May 2009 19:08:50 -0300
Jorge Morais please.no.spam.h...@gmail.com wrote:
Now, I do have concerns about your system having remains of multiple
python installations.
Any person with python knowledge can give an opinion on whether this
is dangerous? And what is the easiest way to
On Saturday 23 May 2009 22:02:26 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sat, 23 May 2009 06:59:10 -0500, Dale wrote:
Hmmm, I think someone needs to rethink the system set then. After all,
portage does not work well without python. It should keep a binary copy
but it should also warn you if you are
On Sunday 24 May 2009 00:08:50 Jorge Morais wrote:
On Sat, 23 May 2009 03:51:40 -0700 (PDT)
Jon Hardcastle jd_hardcas...@yahoo.com wrote:
And finally, couldn't he have gotten a binary package from
http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/default-linux/x86/dev-lang/
?
Have you not yet tried to
On Sun, 24 May 2009 01:52:45 -0700
Keith Dart ke...@dartworks.biz wrote:
On Sat, 23 May 2009 19:08:50 -0300
Jorge Morais please.no.spam.h...@gmail.com wrote:
Now, I do have concerns about your system having remains of multiple
python installations.
Any person with python knowledge
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Sunday 24 May 2009 11:28:30 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sun, 24 May 2009 11:07:13 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Portage is not in system, only the virtual. That can be
satisfied by Paludis, which does not need Python.
Lucky for you, I know your sense of
On Sun, 24 May 2009 07:09:37 -0300
Jorge Morais please.no.spam.h...@gmail.com wrote:
You don't seem to have taken into account that he has installed
multiple vanilla python versions *manually* (with ./configure, make,
and make install as root), to /usr, and then installed Python with
Portage.
On Sun, 24 May 2009 07:17:07 -0500, Dale wrote:
1: If I accidentally remove python, portage will not say a word as far
as warning me this is bad. This is what got the OP into this.
Yes, and that's a recent change, presumably as part of the move to make
Gentoo and the portage tree work with
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Sunday 24 May 2009 16:26:25 Neil Bothwick wrote:
2: Once #1 happens, your pretty much screwed because you don't even
have a binary backup even tho it is set in make.conf to have one. That
was the reason I put that setting in make.conf but someone chose to
screw
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Sunday 24 May 2009 19:26:43 Dale wrote:
Also, is this the file that contains the system set?
/usr/portage/profiles/base/packages
If so, python is commented out as is a few others. Is there a way to
add files to something in /etc that emerge would consider in
On Sunday 24 May 2009 20:06:59 Arttu V. wrote:
On 5/24/09, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
profiles are cascading and support multiple inheritance (parent files can
contain several entries). So, you have to run
find /usr/portage/profiles -name packages
to find them all,
On Sun, 24 May 2009 18:22:05 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Not exactly, buildsyspkg does the same as it always did, but @system
has changed. This cold have happened at any time as there was never a
need for python to be in @system,because it's a dependency of
portage.
That may well be
On Sun, 24 May 2009 20:54:14 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Portage will not let you unmerge portage or gcc without a fight. It
offers a way to back up these critical packages. No rational person
will attempt to argue that python in a *portage* system is not subject
to the same constraints.
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sun, 24 May 2009 18:22:05 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Not exactly, buildsyspkg does the same as it always did, but @system
has changed. This cold have happened at any time as there was never a
need for python to be in @system,because it's a dependency of
portage.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
I followed this
http://blogs.pwmn.net/korkakak/2008/06/04/gentoo-i-unmerged-python-now-what
which worked - in the end. couple of caveats tho for anyone 'that follows'
get python from their site as the ftp link in this article is out of date.
On Sat, 23 May 2009 04:55:04 -0300
Jorge Morais please.no.spam.h...@gmail.com wrote:
Couldn't he have emerged python by invoking
ebuild /usr/port/usr/portage/dev-lang/python/python-2.6.2.ebuild merge
?
This would do everyting correctly.
And wouldn't it work without Python, since it is
--- On Sat, 23/5/09, Jorge Morais please.no.spam.h...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Jorge Morais please.no.spam.h...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ARGH I uninstalled python
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Date: Saturday, 23 May, 2009, 8:55 AM
Thank you! Thank you! Thank
you!
I
--- On Sat, 23/5/09, Jorge Morais please.no.spam.h...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Jorge Morais please.no.spam.h...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ARGH I uninstalled python
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Date: Saturday, 23 May, 2009, 8:55 AM
Thank you! Thank you! Thank
you!
I
Arttu V. wrote:
Dale wrote:
You may want to look into that setting for next time. I did however
notice that although python is in the system set, it is not saving a
copy for some reason. Anybody know why this setting is not working?
FEATURES=--keep-going buildsyspkg sandbox
On 5/23/09, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
This is what I get with this command:
r...@smoker / # emerge -ep system | grep python
[ebuild R ] app-admin/python-updater-0.5
[ebuild R ] dev-lang/python-2.5.4-r2
r...@smoker / #
So python is there if you do it emptytree.
emptytree
Arttu V. wrote:
On 5/23/09, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
This is what I get with this command:
r...@smoker / # emerge -ep system | grep python
[ebuild R ] app-admin/python-updater-0.5
[ebuild R ] dev-lang/python-2.5.4-r2
r...@smoker / #
So python is there if you do it
On Saturday 23 May 2009 13:52:13 Arttu V. wrote:
Note how binutils still is within the system set and gets the extra
warning, while python doesn't get the special system set warning with
the three exclamation marks? I.e., python *is no longer* in the system
set, probably removed by the very
On Sat, 23 May 2009 06:59:10 -0500, Dale wrote:
Hmmm, I think someone needs to rethink the system set then. After all,
portage does not work well without python. It should keep a binary copy
but it should also warn you if you are typing without your thinking cap
on.
Portage is not in
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sat, 23 May 2009 06:59:10 -0500, Dale wrote:
Hmmm, I think someone needs to rethink the system set then. After all,
portage does not work well without python. It should keep a binary copy
but it should also warn you if you are typing without your thinking cap
On Sat, 23 May 2009 03:51:40 -0700 (PDT)
Jon Hardcastle jd_hardcas...@yahoo.com wrote:
And finally, couldn't he have gotten a binary package from
http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/default-linux/x86/dev-lang/
?
Have you not yet tried to get python from a binary package?
See
I was trying to do a emerge --update ask world and it kept failing on updating
python-updater and it was tripping over the python install soo i did
the 'sensible' thing and unemerged python. NOW I REALISE THAT PYTHON IS
INTEGRAL TO emerge.
Can i fix this
Also, perhaps some more
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Download python package from internet and install it manually.
Afterwards, when emerge get functional re-emerge python.
... I used this way, when it happened to me ...
Michal
Jon Hardcastle wrote:
I was trying to do a emerge --update ask world and
Jon Hardcastle wrote:
I was trying to do a emerge --update ask world and it kept failing on
updating python-updater and it was tripping over the python install
soo i did the 'sensible' thing and unemerged python. NOW I REALISE THAT
PYTHON IS INTEGRAL TO emerge.
Can i fix this
--- On Sat, 23/5/09, Michal Sroka michal.sr...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Michal Sroka michal.sr...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ARGH I uninstalled python
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Date: Saturday, 23 May, 2009, 12:13 AM
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Jon Hardcastle wrote:
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
I followed this
http://blogs.pwmn.net/korkakak/2008/06/04/gentoo-i-unmerged-python-now-what
which worked - in the end. couple of caveats tho for anyone 'that
follows' get python from their site as the ftp link in this article is
out
Dale wrote:
You may want to look into that setting for next time. I did however
notice that although python is in the system set, it is not saving a
copy for some reason. Anybody know why this setting is not working?
FEATURES=--keep-going buildsyspkg sandbox fixpackages
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