Re: [gentoo-user] Fragile python update is wedged.

2025-05-18 Thread Dale
Michael wrote: > On Saturday, 17 May 2025 08:17:34 British Summer Time Dale wrote: >> Dale wrote: >>> SNIP >>> Oh, tried to do the last step on my main rig, emerge spit out a nice >>> loud and hard to miss, NO!!!. There's still a lot of packages not ready >>> for python 3.13 yet. Maybe

Re: [gentoo-user] Fragile python update is wedged.

2025-05-18 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 17 May 2025 08:17:34 British Summer Time Dale wrote: > Dale wrote: > > SNIP > > Oh, tried to do the last step on my main rig, emerge spit out a nice > > loud and hard to miss, NO!!!. There's still a lot of packages not ready > > for python 3.13 yet. Maybe next week. If I d

Re: [gentoo-user] Fragile python update is wedged.

2025-05-17 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: > SNIP > Oh, tried to do the last step on my main rig, emerge spit out a nice > loud and hard to miss, NO!!!.  There's still a lot of packages not ready > for python 3.13 yet.  Maybe next week.  If I don't forget.  Again.  > > Dale > > :-)  :-)  > Little update.  I just went

Re: [gentoo-user] Fragile python update is wedged.

2025-05-11 Thread Eli Schwartz
On 5/11/25 3:10 PM, Wol wrote: > But anyway - a bit more - the actual targets ... > >> You didn't post full output so it's difficult to say for sure. But, >> "requires just one of" sounds like this: >> >> $ PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET='python3_13 python3_12' emerge -1a glib-utils > > That's basically wh

Re: [gentoo-user] Fragile python update is wedged.

2025-05-11 Thread Wol
On 11/05/2025 19:08, Eli Schwartz wrote: Because the news item, as written, led me up the garden path! "Safer upgrade procedure === A safer approach is to add Python 3.13 support to your system first, and only then remove Python 3.12.  However, note that this involves two

Re: [gentoo-user] Fragile python update is wedged.

2025-05-11 Thread Eli Schwartz
On 5/11/25 1:40 PM, Wol wrote: > On 11/05/2025 16:04, Eli Schwartz wrote: >>> I followed the instructions at the end - depclean, -1uVD, and it just >>> fails completely with "requires just one of 3_11 or 3_12". Including >>> important stuff like most of kde, systemd-dbus, and so on. >>> >>> I thoug

Re: [gentoo-user] Fragile python update is wedged.

2025-05-11 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 11 May 2025 18:40:44 British Summer Time Wol wrote: > Found it. I will investigate, but to the best of my memory I have no > "targets" settings whatsoever. I will take a look, but at the moment I'm > running the emerge. So from what the news item says, it looks like > everything should

Re: [gentoo-user] Fragile python update is wedged.

2025-05-11 Thread Wol
On 11/05/2025 16:04, Eli Schwartz wrote: On 5/11/25 7:54 AM, Wol wrote: On 02/05/2025 18:07, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hello, Gentoo. I've just been trying the update for python 3.13.  It went well on my new machine (well, after unmerging app-portage/unsymlink-lib, which was debris from some 201

Re: [gentoo-user] Fragile python update is wedged.

2025-05-11 Thread Eli Schwartz
On 5/11/25 9:26 AM, Philip Webb wrote: > I noticed others reporting Python update problems & didn't follow it, > but in my regular Sat update today encountered a big mess. > 'setuptools-scm' offered 13 screens of conflicts, > which were reduced to 10 by ' --backtrack=60 '. > I tried a 'quickpkg

Re: [gentoo-user] Fragile python update is wedged.

2025-05-11 Thread Eli Schwartz
On 5/11/25 7:54 AM, Wol wrote: > > > On 02/05/2025 18:07, Alan Mackenzie wrote: >> Hello, Gentoo. >> >> I've just been trying the update for python 3.13.  It went well on my >> new machine (well, after unmerging app-portage/unsymlink-lib, which was >> debris from some 2019 update). > > I'm now t

Re: [gentoo-user] Fragile python update is wedged.

2025-05-11 Thread Dale
Wol wrote: > On 11/05/2025 13:43, Frank Schletz wrote: >> It works for me and looks very straight forward. >> I got a non-systemd system and not that much packages. >> >> Hope you got a clean emerge @world at the beginning. > > Yup I always make sure everything's depclean'd at the end. > > It's now

Re: [gentoo-user] Fragile python update is wedged.

2025-05-11 Thread Dale
Philip Webb wrote: > I noticed others reporting Python update problems & didn't follow it, > but in my regular Sat update today encountered a big mess. > 'setuptools-scm' offered 13 screens of conflicts, > which were reduced to 10 by ' --backtrack=60 '. > I tried a 'quickpkg' + 'emerge -k', but

Re: [gentoo-user] Fragile python update is wedged.

2025-05-11 Thread Wol
On 11/05/2025 13:43, Frank Schletz wrote: It works for me and looks very straight forward. I got a non-systemd system and not that much packages. Hope you got a clean emerge @world at the beginning. Yup I always make sure everything's depclean'd at the end. It's now updating stage 1 fine (app

Re: [gentoo-user] Fragile python update is wedged.

2025-05-11 Thread Philip Webb
I noticed others reporting Python update problems & didn't follow it, but in my regular Sat update today encountered a big mess. 'setuptools-scm' offered 13 screens of conflicts, which were reduced to 10 by ' --backtrack=60 '. I tried a 'quickpkg' + 'emerge -k', but was refused as the ebuild wa

Re: [gentoo-user] Fragile python update is wedged.

2025-05-11 Thread Frank Schletz
Am Sun, 11 May 2025 12:54:48 +0100 schrieb Wol : > On 02/05/2025 18:07, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Hello, Gentoo. > > > > I've just been trying the update for python 3.13. It went well on my > > new machine (well, after unmerging app-portage/unsymlink-lib, which was > > debris from some 2019 upda

Re: [gentoo-user] Fragile python update is wedged.

2025-05-11 Thread Dale
Wol wrote: > > > On 02/05/2025 18:07, Alan Mackenzie wrote: >> Hello, Gentoo. >> >> I've just been trying the update for python 3.13.  It went well on my >> new machine (well, after unmerging app-portage/unsymlink-lib, which was >> debris from some 2019 update). > > I'm now trying to update my syst

Re: [gentoo-user] Fragile python update is wedged.

2025-05-11 Thread Wol
On 02/05/2025 18:07, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hello, Gentoo. I've just been trying the update for python 3.13. It went well on my new machine (well, after unmerging app-portage/unsymlink-lib, which was debris from some 2019 update). I'm now trying to update my system. And it's not even fragil

Re: [gentoo-user] Fragile python update is wedged [Was: Fragile rust update is wedged].

2025-05-04 Thread Eli Schwartz
On 5/4/25 12:41 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Eli. > > [ Added in some hours after writing the main bit below ] > > I've managed to solve my problem. In the error output from emerge there > was a message about having to update some configuration files. Normally > this message just means "w

Re: [gentoo-user] Fragile python update is wedged [Was: Fragile rust update is wedged].

2025-05-04 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Eli. [ Added in some hours after writing the main bit below ] I've managed to solve my problem. In the error output from emerge there was a message about having to update some configuration files. Normally this message just means "we advise you to get around to this sometime" but this ti

Re: [gentoo-user] Fragile python update is wedged [Was: Fragile rust update is wedged].

2025-05-02 Thread Jay Faulkner
On 5/2/25 3:17 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: None of this has anything to do with Gentoo, really, it's just a tangent. :) Yeah, fair enough for sure! I read that "a project" in the original email as a backhanded reference to Gentoo itself. I'm friends with a handful of folks who have been (unfair

Re: [gentoo-user] Fragile python update is wedged [Was: Fragile rust update is wedged].

2025-05-02 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Jay. On Fri, May 02, 2025 at 14:44:06 -0700, Jay Faulkner wrote: > On 5/2/25 2:15 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > If that's the way they see things, it would seem that having a project > > dependent on rust should figure high on that project's risk list. > This is ... a non-actionable take,

Re: [gentoo-user] Fragile python update is wedged [Was: Fragile rust update is wedged].

2025-05-02 Thread Jay Faulkner
On 5/2/25 2:15 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: If that's the way they see things, it would seem that having a project dependent on rust should figure high on that project's risk list. This is ... a non-actionable take, regardless of if I agree with it or not. Do you expect Gentoo to replace Firefo

Re: [gentoo-user] Fragile python update is wedged [Was: Fragile rust update is wedged].

2025-05-02 Thread Wol
On 02/05/2025 22:15, Alan Mackenzie wrote: I think my first summary of my problem was fair: The python update scheme is fragile. In particular if the emerge is interrupted for any reason, it cannot be restarted, and cannot be reverted to a workable state, without a great deal of time and expert

Re: [gentoo-user] Fragile python update is wedged.

2025-05-02 Thread Pramod V U
You need a rust compiler to compile rust's own rust compiler. You either need dev-lang/rust-bin, a package with binaries... Either just use it or compile the main rust package for use. If that's a problem. dev-lang/mrustc is another compiler for rust, written in C/C++. It has been written speci

[gentoo-user] Fragile python update is wedged.

2025-05-02 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Gentoo. I've just been trying the update for python 3.13. It went well on my new machine (well, after unmerging app-portage/unsymlink-lib, which was debris from some 2019 update). On my old machine, however, there was a seg fault while merging rust. This is a known problem in certain firs