Bug 356177 – app-portage/esearch-0.7.1-r7 - "eupdatedb" fails with python 3.x

• Status: VERIFIED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Steffen Bergner 2011-02-23 08:14:08 UTC]

-----NON-working python version----->

linux01 ~ # eselect python list
Available Python interpreters:
  [1]   python2.6
  [2]   python2.7 
  [3]   python3.1 *

linux01 ~ # eupdatedb
  File "/usr/sbin/eupdatedb", line 41
    print "eupdatedb (0.7.1) - Update the search-index for esearch"
                                                                  ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

-----working python version----->

linux01 ~ # eselect python set 2

linux01 ~ # eselect python list
Available Python interpreters:
  [1]   python2.6
  [2]   python2.7 *
  [3]   python3.1

linux01 ~ # eupdatedb
 * indexing: 9336 ebuilds to go...

[Comment 1 Zac Medico 2011-02-23 16:43:26 UTC]

I've added a new esearch-0.7.1-r8 ebuild with python2 specified in the shebangs.

[Comment 2 Steffen Bergner 2011-02-24 06:37:18 UTC]

Thanks a lot. It solved the issue. Now I can get rid of python < 3.x ;)

[Comment 3 Zac Medico 2011-02-24 15:13:28 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Thanks a lot. It solved the issue. Now I can get rid of python < 3.x ;)

You still need python2 if you want to use esearch. However, it won't be much work to make esearch python3 compatible.

[Comment 4 Steffen Bergner 2011-02-24 15:23:30 UTC]

--> ;) <-- sure. I have still some other "depclean python2"-breaker. Thanks for the clarification, will sure helpful for others too.