I've just updated from python-2.5 to 2.6. Since emerge ran fine, I
ran python-updater. It's encountering problems with lots of
packages. For example, "emerge -1 setuptools" ends with:

########## begin emerge output ##########

copying build/lib/pkg_resources.py -> /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages
ACCESS DENIED
open_wr: /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/pkg_resources.py
error: /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/pkg_resources.py: Permission
denied
*
* ERROR: dev-python/setuptools-0.6_rc8-r1 failed.
* Call stack:
* ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_install
* environment, line 2445: Called distutils_src_install
* environment, line 724: Called die
* The specific snippet of code:
* ${python} setup.py install --root="${D}" --no-compile "$@" || die
"python setup.py install failed";
* The die message:
* python setup.py install failed
*
* If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call
stack if relevant.
* A complete build log is located at
'/var/log/portage/dev-python:setuptools-0.6_rc8-r1:20081021-133932.log'.
* The ebuild environment file is located at
'/var/tmp/portage/dev-python/setuptools-0.6_rc8-r1/temp/environment'.
*
--------------------------- ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY
--------------------------- LOG FILE =
"/var/log/sandbox/sandbox-32513.log"

open_wr: /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/pkg_resources.py
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

>>> Failed to emerge dev-python/setuptools-0.6_rc8-r1, Log file:

>>> '/var/log/portage/dev-python:setuptools-0.6_rc8-r1:20081021-133932.log'

* GNU info directory index is up-to-date.

########## end emerge output ##########

This looks like a permissions problem
in /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/. I normally run emerge as
'relson', but this time I ran emerge as 'root' -- so I don't think
it's a simple permissions problem.

Has anybody else emerge python-2.6 and run python-updater? Any idea
of what I may be doing wrong? Is it time to head for bgo?

Regards,

David