[solved] python update problems

[childc2]

Hey everyone,
I seem to have caused myself a little bit of trouble with python recently. I installed python 2.7 when the update became available. When I did I unmerged python 2.6 before I realized I should have run eselect to set the new version of python and run python-updater.
This left me with no python to use emerge with so I followed the fix here.
That fix got python working again, and I can run emerge and so on with almost no problems. The problem is now I have python 2.6 installed from having unpacked it and compiled it manually and a few packages like sys-libs/tdb will fail to compile with the python use flag now. Python 2.6 is also listed again in the eselect list.

Does anyone know a good way for me to remove Python 2.6 now that I have 2.7 running?

Thanks for the help

Edit: title - childc2 03/30/2011

[dol-sen]

Actually you didn't have to manually compile python. You could have run eselect python list ,... and set to set it to 2.7.

You could have run python updater then too.

Check to see if it installs to the same locations as portage would. Unfortunately, not using the package manager, means you have to track it's files manualy, for uninstall.

You could try re-emerging python-2.6 with collision-protect turned off so that it overwrites the files by your manual install. That should allow you to unmerge it and get most of the files cleaned out. The remaining ones you'll have to hunt on your own.
_________________
Brian
Porthole, the Portage GUI frontend irc@freenode: #gentoo-guis, #porthole, Blog
layman, gentoolkit, CoreBuilder, esearch...

[childc2]

Thank you.
Emerging Python 2.6 with collision-protect off worked. I ended up having to pull /usr/bin/python2.6-config out of that directory to get tdb to compile too.

[tomk]

Moved from Portage & Programming to Duplicate Threads, please see Python 2.7 upgrade?
_________________
Search | Read | Answer | Report | Strip