dev-python/setuptools conflict when running python-updater
* Walter Dnes (waltdnes@waltdnes.org) [19.07.08 03:20]:
> I did some updates today. "emerge --sync" and updated world on my
> "production machine". Things went OK, including running python-updater.
> Then I scp'd the contents of /usr/portage/distfiles over to my "hot
> backup machine", ran "emerge --sync" (pointing at my production machine)
> and updated. Just like on the main machine, /var/log/portage/elog had
> an advisory to run python-updater. This time, it didn't work...
>
> ================================================== =====================
> d531 elog # /usr/sbin/python-updater
> * Starting Python Updater from 2.4 to 2.5 :
> * Adding to list: =sys-libs/cracklib-2.8.10
> * Adding to list: =net-mail/getmail-4.7.6
> * Adding to list: =app-office/gnumeric-1.8.2
> * Adding to list: =dev-java/java-config-1.3.7
> * Adding to list: =dev-java/java-config-2.1.6
> * Adding to list: =dev-python/python-fchksum-1.7.1
> * Adding to list: =dev-python/docutils-0.4-r3
> * Adding to list: =dev-python/setuptools-0.6_rc7-r1
> * Adding to list: =dev-python/pycrypto-2.0.1-r6
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies
> !!! Multiple versions within a single package slot have been
> !!! pulled into the dependency graph:
>
> dev-python/setuptools:0
>
> ('ebuild', '/', 'dev-python/setuptools-0.6_rc7-r1', 'merge') (no
> parents)
>
> ('ebuild', '/', 'dev-python/setuptools-0.6_rc8-r1', 'merge') pulled in
> by
> ('ebuild', '/', 'dev-python/docutils-0.4-r3', 'merge')
> ================================================== =====================
>
> Masking out =dev-python/setuptools-0.6_rc7-r1 didn't work, so I'm
> considering removing it. Having been burned before when unmerging
> core-utils (OUCH!!!) I thought I'd ask here before doing anything
> stupid. How do I get around this python-updater problem?
>
Just make an
# emerge -1 setuptools
and python-updater will run smoothly
If you are using gnome, also
# emerge -1 gnome-doc-utils
I hit the same bugs yesterday.
The second one is because python-updater seems to miss it and you would
get a snadbox violation.
HTH
Sebastian
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dev-python/setuptools conflict when running python-updater
