Le samedi 21 janvier 2017 à 10:49 +0100, Michał Górny a écrit :
> Please review the following news item. It was requested by users.
> Preferably I'd like to commit it today.
> 
>  --
> 
> Title: python-exec 2.3 reclaims python* symlinks
> Author: Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain
> Posted: 2017-01-21
> Revision: 1
> News-Item-Format: 1.0
> Display-If-Installed: <app-eselect/eselect-python-20160206
> Display-If-Installed: <dev-lang/python-exec-2.3
> 
> The new versions of python-exec (2.3 and newer) are reclaiming
> multiple
> Python-related symlinks in /usr/bin, most notably /usr/bin/python*.
> This
> may result in your package manager reporting file collisions.
> 
> The respective symlinks were previously either unowned and created
> dynamically by app-eselect/eselect-python, or installed by it. From
> now
> on, all Python-related symlinks are installed and handled
> by python-exec. This ensures that they respect the python-exec
> configuration files and variables consistently with regular Python
> packages, and improves their reliability.
> 
> If you are using FEATURES=collision-protect, Portage will reject
> the upgrade. If this is the case, please temporarily switch to
> FEATURES=protect-owned for the upgrade.
> 
> If you are using FEATURES=protect-owned, Portage will verbosely warn
> about the file collisions but will proceed with the upgrade once
> determining no replaced files are owned. Please disregard the
> warning.
> 
> The potentially colliding files are:
> 
>  * /usr/bin/2to3
>  * /usr/bin/pydoc
>  * /usr/bin/python
>  * /usr/bin/python2
>  * /usr/bin/python3
>  * /usr/bin/python-config
> 
> For more information on python-exec, please see:
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Python/python-exec
> 

reads clearly, +1 for having these files owned by a package.

-- 
Gilles Dartiguelongue <e...@gentoo.org>
Gentoo

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