Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> [10-06-20 18:38]: > On Sunday 20 June 2010 16:05:58 Alex Schuster wrote: > > meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: > > > Alex Schuster <wo...@wonkology.org> [10-06-20 15:16]: > > >> How about putting dev-python/setuptools into > > >> /etc/portage/package.keywords, and trying to emerge 0.6.13? > > > > > > I tried to re-emerge setuptools 0.6.10 and it fails the same way. > > > So I believe (=not knowing) that this problem is caused by something > > > outside setuptools, which gets screwed up. > > > > Probably python itself, as Arttu pointed out. > > > > > Problem with 0.6.13 is: If it compiles and installs itsself, 0.6.10 > > > (current version) is gone and cannot get back due to the same problem > > > (see above). And then I have a "unstable" version, which may pull in > > > other unstable versions of something else, which pull in.... > > > > Maybe, but at least in the ebuild itself there are no such dependencies. > > If you'd need to keyword this package only, it should do no harm. If > > more things need to be keyworded, I agree that this tends to make things > > complicated. But at least you can quickpkg the existing version, and get > > it back when needed without compiling with emerge -k. > > But when 0.6.10 also fails, the problem is likely to be somewhere else. > > > > > This way I have corrupted my last installed gentoo system... > > > > I'm at ~amd64 now, and things are easier now :) At least for me. > > > > If you are desperate: Maybe removing setuptools would at least make > > python-updater run through, unless something would pull it in again. > > Emerge -k setuptools back. You may be missing stuff for python 3.1, but > > maybe this does not harm too much. > > > > And report a bug at bugs.gentoo.org, so the maintainers know what's > > going on. > > I'd have another go but after setting MAKEOPTS="-j1" (although I have to > admit > the error you posted does not look like this would make any difference). > -- > Regards, > Mick
Hi Mick, thanks for your posting! I set it to -j 1 and setuptools fails as before... Best regards, mcc
