emerge gentoo-sources deletes python - this is not good!

ajackson · n00b Joined: 06 Sep 2003 Posts: 12 Location: Houston, Tx

I've gone through the install about 5 times now and I keep running into the same problem. I'm installing stage3-x86-2005.1-r1.tar.bz2, and I work through the whole process, download the latest snapshot (today's), do an emerge --sync, everything looks good.
/usr/src/linux -> linux-2.6.15--gentoo-r1
Then when I do
USE="-doc symlink" emerge gentoo-sources
at the end of the emerge, it deletes python, leaving me with an unusable system....
What the heck is going on here?

Actually it looks like for any emerge, at the end I get :
>>> Auto-cleaning packages ...
sys-apps/baselayout
selected: 1.11.13-r1
protected: 1.11.12-r4

dev-lang/python
selected: 2.3.5-r2
protected: 2.3.5

and *all* of python gets summarily deleted...
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cyrillic · Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 12:32 am Post subject:

Can you post the output of "emerge --info" before python gets deleted ?

I.C.Wiener · Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 12:40 am Post subject:

Looks like you downgraded python and baselayout. Portage just wants to do some cleanup, remove the newer versions but will leave you with python-2.3.5 installed - which should be working.
I guess you might be using an outdated portage tree. Just run "emerge sync" to get a recent tree and then try to emerge gentoo-sources again.

ajackson · n00b Joined: 06 Sep 2003 Posts: 12 Location: Houston, Tx

Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13
Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.12-gentoo-r10 i686)
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System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r10 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 2.00GHz
dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.3.5-r2
sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.11
sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5
sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10
sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1
virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i386-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-Os -mcpu=i686 -pipe"
CHOST="i386-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-Os -mcpu=i686 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo ftp://mirror.iawnet.sandia.gov/pub/gentoo/"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 crypt cups eds emboss encode expat foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imlib ipv6 jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl spell ssl tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev vorbis xml2 xmms xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
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Alan Jackson

ajackson · n00b Joined: 06 Sep 2003 Posts: 12 Location: Houston, Tx

I did a sync 2 minutes before the error. I have no idea why it wants to do a downgrade.
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Alan Jackson

cyrillic · Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 12:57 am Post subject: Re: emerge --info

I.C.Wiener · Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 9:16 pm Post subject:

If your portage tree is up to date I wonder why it wouldn't install python-2.4.2 which is the latest stable release according to packages.gentoo.org.
Try