Yeah, I'm not sure. That was a work machine I no longer have access to. My home machine is using SUNWPython and SUNWPython26 so I would assume that the work machine was using an install of SUNWPython25 before SUNWPython26 was available, off of the dev package server.
Malachi de ?lfweald http://www.google.com/profiles/malachid On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Mike Meyer <mwm at mired.org> wrote: > On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:05:47 PST > Malachi de AElfweald <malachid at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > He broke the world by changing /usr/bin/python. When he fixed that, > > > things worked again. His complaining that "Python 2.5 breaks > > > OpenSolaris menus" is like complaining that "rm breaks OpenSolaris > > > booting" because if you do "rm -rf /boot", OpenSolaris won't boot any > > > more. > > Installing the Python 2.5 package changed that symlink to 2.5 and > > broke everything. I changed it to get everything working again. > > Was there a better solution? > > Nope, the package broke the system by changing an executable it > shouldn't have. Putting the executable back to what it was is the > correct solution, just as restoring /boot would be the correct > solution if you had installed a package that removed it. > > My apologies for implying you had made the mistake. That the package > overwrote /usr/bin/python is a bug in the package. The SUNWPython25 > (and SUNWPython26, for that matter) package doesn't do that, and you > don't say where the upgrade came from. Adding that as a warning to > others might help them avoid the problem. > > It may be possible to fix things by installing the python2.5 version > of all the appropriate libraries. But that assumes that there's a > version of the library that works on python2.5. And unless you can > identify every library installed on python2.4 and set those up as > well, you'll probably wind up finding another broken app pretty > soon. So leaving /usr/bin/python alone is the best solution. > > The FreeBSD folks are the only people I know who've even tried to > tackle this; they have an tool that identifies all the Python > libraries installed from ports or packages and reinstalls them on a > new python. But that doesn't work if you've installed a library by > hand. > > <mike > -- > Mike Meyer <mwm at mired.org> > http://www.mired.org/consulting.html > Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. > > O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-help/attachments/20091122/9f8f9f56/attachment.html>
