for unknown reason, my system didnt not create a python3.1-amd64 -> python3.1 link inside /usr/bin/ as it did for python2.6. But some ebuilds / configure scripts seem to expect such a link. Reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. amd64 no-multilib system 2. emerge -u dev-lang/python:3.1 3. eselect python update Actual Results: Any ebuild i tried to emerge depending on python does not find it anymore Expected Results: nothing special # emerge --info Portage 2.1.8.3 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/no-multilib, gcc-4.4.3, glibc-2.11.1-r0, 2.6.34-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.34-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_P8400_@_2.26GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Thu, 27 May 2010 07:45:01 +0000 distcc 3.1 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [disabled] ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.1_p7 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.10 dev-lang/python: 2.6.5-r2, 3.1.2-r3 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.1.0 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.1-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.6.1-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.65 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.3-r2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.7b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.33 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA as-is Nero-EULA-US PUEL dlj-1.1 SMLABS-EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -floop-interchange -floop-strip-mine -floop-block -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -floop-interchange -floop-strip-mine -floop-block -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests autoconfig ccache distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch prelink protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/ ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/ ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo ftp://ftp.wh2.tu-dresden.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/" LANG="de_DE@euro" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="de en" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/lib/layman/rion /usr/portage/local" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3G 3dnow 3dnowext 64bit R X a52 aac aalib abyss acct ace acl acpi additions addressbook adns aim aio akonadi alsa amd64 amr animgif antlr api archive ares artworkextra aspell async audioscrobbler auto-completion autoipd automount avahi bash-completion battery bcmath berkdb binary-drivers bittorrent bluetooth bonjour bookmarks branding bugzilla bzip2 cairo calendar caps cardbus ccache cdda cddax cddb cdio cdr cdrom cg chipcard chm chroot cisco cli cmake colordiff consolekit context corefonts cracklib cron crypt cscope css csv ctype cuda cue cups cupsddk curl cvs cxx daap dbus dbx dell detex device-mapper dhcp dhcpcd dht dia disk-partition djvu dlna dlopen dnotify doc dri dts dvb dvd dvdr dvi dvipdfm eap-sim eap-tls embedded encode enscript examples exif expat extensions extras faad fakevim fam fastbuild fat fax ffmpeg firefox firefox3 flac flash flickr fontconfig foomaticdb fortran ftp fts3 garmin gcj gd gd-external gdbm geoip 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nspr nss ntfs ntp nvidia nxclient obex odk ogg okular openal opencl openct openexr opengl openmp optimization optimized-qmake oscar otr oxygen pam parted patch pcf pch pcmcia pcntl pcre pda pdf perl perlsuid phonon plasma plotutils pmount pmu png podcast policykit poppler-data posix postscript ppds pppd prediction preview-latex print ps pstoedit pstricks pulseaudio pvr python python3 qalculate qemu qmake qml qscintilla qt-webkit qt3support qt4 qtscript quicktime quota quotas rar rdesktop rdp readline recode reflection reiserfs remote rpm rss rtsp samba sasl scanner screen screenshot scripts sdl search secure-delete semantic-desktop server session sftp simplexml skins slang slp smp sms snmp sound spell spl sql sqlite sqlite3 sse sse2 sse3 sse4 sse4a sse5 ssh ssl ssse3 startup-notification stats stream strong-optimization subversion suid svg symlink sysfs syslog sysvipc t1lib taglib tcpdump tcpreplay templates tex texmacs theora thesaurus threads threadsafe thumbnail tiff tk tools tpm truetype udev udev-acl uml unicode unzip upnp usb v4l v4l2 vcd video vim vim-pager vim-syntax vim-with-x virtualbox vnc vorbis watchdog webdav webkit wifi wireshark wma wordperfect wps wv2 wxwidgets x264 x86emu xattr xcb xcomposite xen xetex xext xft xhtml xine xinerama xml xmlrpc xmp xorg xpm xprint xrandr xscreensaver xslt xulrunner xv xvid yahoo zeroconf zip zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel usb-audio" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CAMERAS="all" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev synaptics vmmouse virtualbox" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="de en" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia nv vmware virtualbox" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
(In reply to comment #0) > a python3.1-amd64 -> python3.1 link inside /usr/bin/ as it did for python2.6. Neither dev-lang/python nor `eselect python` create any symlinks ending with "-amd64". > Steps to Reproduce: > 1. amd64 no-multilib system > 2. emerge -u dev-lang/python:3.1 > 3. eselect python update Setting Python 3.1 as main active version of Python is not supported.
