On 16 September 2014 17:02:43 CEST, Joseph <syscon...@gmail.com> wrote: >On 09/16/14 14:18, James wrote: >>Joseph <syscon780 <at> gmail.com> writes: >> >>> >>> After recent emerge I get few blockers, that I don't know what to do >>> with it My box has not been updated for 3-months :-/ >> >>Joseph, >> >>The problems with perl updates are not new. It was discussed on this >>list quite a bit the last few months. If your update cycle is more >than >>a few weeks, you are going to miss the relevant discussions on >gentoo-user >>that solve most of your issues; so maybe update your system >weekly_ish? >>(and browse gentoo-user). >> >>> emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "dev-lang/python:3.1". >> >>" eselect python list " >> >>will show your current active version of python. Most all (stable) >systems >>have a version 2 (2.7) and version 3 (3.3) installed. I'm not >>sure why your system did not upgrade 3.1 to 3.3, during the course >>of routine upgrades. Also run: >> >>"python-updater" >> >>after compiling new or removing old version of >>python. python is system *critical* so be cautious when performing >>install/removal admin tasks on python. >> >> >> >>hth, >>James > >Good suggestion. >Running: ># eselect python list ># eselect python set (put number for python:3.3) ># emerge -C dev-lang/python:3.1 ># python updater > >solved all the problems. >I was at python:3.3 but for some reason or another (mostly my fault) I >did not unmerged python:3.1 > >When it comes to upgrading be-weekly maybe but from my experience, when >I was doing it more often, occasionally, I ended up with a broken >system that was caused by new >packages. >I have 4-boxes at home and two boxes at a remote location. So the >boxes at home get upgraded first, I wait a week, just to make sure >every program works and >then I upgrade one box on a remote location, wait one week again and >upgrade the second box (the backup) in the remote location. >So doing it even every second week would be too often for this routine. > >The boxes are "rsync" to one local box.
I am starting to wonder. How exactly do you upgrade the other machines? Copying the entire filesystem? -- Joost -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
