Re: [gentoo-user] preserved rebuild failure with python

[Adam Carter]

On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 1:37 PM, allan gottlieb <gottl...@nyu.edu> wrote:

> I can't complete an emerge @preserved-rebuild due to the lack of
> python3.3.
>
> However, I read the news article and have set the python3 interpreter to
> python3.4
>
>    allan ~ # eselect python list --python3
>    Available Python 3 interpreters:
>      [1]   python3.3
>      [2]   python3.4 *
>    allan ~ # eselect python list
>    Available Python interpreters:
>      [1]   python2.7 *
>      [2]   python3.3
>      [3]   python3.4
>    allan ~ #
>
> Here is the output from emerge @preserved-rebuild
>
>    allan ~ # emerge @preserved-rebuild
>
>    These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:
>
>    Calculating dependencies... done!
>
>    emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "dev-lang/python:3.3".
>    (dependency required by "@preserved-rebuild" [argument])
>

Something appears to want 3.3 specifically, not 3.x. Try adding -v to
emerge to try to work out which package it is, then check the ebuilds of
other versions to see if there's one that's not dependent on 3.3.