On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 14:25, Tom Eastman wrote: > On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 17:25, RoT wrote: > > just do what I did and emerge python 2.3 but keep the 'python' symlink in > > /usr/lib pointing to 2.2. It just means that when you want to invoke 2.3 > > you will need to specifically type 'python2.3' but portage and the like > > will still use 2.2. > > Sounds like a good plan to me. :-) > > I guess the main worry is that I don't want it to automatically *unmerge* > python 2.2 and thus break portage. The two packages are in different SLOTs > at least, so hopefully that won't happen. > > However... any idea what happens to all the third party modules in the > site-packages/ directory?
Each version gets different sets (in /usr/lib/python2.2/ and /usr/lib/python2.3/ ) You will also have to re-install all third-party modules. Before you do that, change the python symlink to point to python2.3, then change it back when you are done. HTH, -- -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Keith Dart <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.kdart.com/> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Public key ID: B08B9D2C Public key: <http://www.kdart.com/~kdart/public.key> ============================================================================
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