On 2008-07-27, Qian Qiao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
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