[gentoo-user] All ~arch users: do not update python

2010-08-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Updating python to 2.6.5_p20100801 will break portage. emerge will stop working after that and there's no information on how to recover from that right now (because emerge won't work, you can't downgrade to the previous, working python version.) Bug for this issue:

Re: [gentoo-user] All ~arch users: do not update python

2010-08-02 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 03:53 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Updating python to 2.6.5_p20100801 will break portage. emerge will stop working after that and there's no information on how to recover from that right now (because emerge won't work, you can't downgrade to the previous, working

Re: [gentoo-user] All ~arch users: do not update python

2010-08-02 Thread John Campbell
On 08/02/2010 05:53 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Updating python to 2.6.5_p20100801 will break portage. emerge will stop working after that and there's no information on how to recover from that right now (because emerge won't work, you can't downgrade to the previous, working python

Re: [gentoo-user] All ~arch users: do not update python

2010-08-02 Thread John Campbell
On 08/02/2010 06:20 PM, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 03:53 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Updating python to 2.6.5_p20100801 will break portage. emerge will stop working after that and there's no information on how to recover from that right now (because emerge won't work,

Re: [gentoo-user] All ~arch users: do not update python

2010-08-02 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 20:39 -0700, John Campbell wrote: Do you have the python3 useflag set? If so, emerge should be using python3 not your eselected version. Oh yeah, I'm using the python3 version of portage, that must be why. -a