New Gentoo installations are born with Python version 2.2, but this gets upgraded to version 2.3 during the install. After gentoo installation is complete, both Python versions remain installed. However, version 2.3 is incomplete. The python2.3/site-packages directory lacks certain modules which are present in the python2.2/site-packages directory. These missing modules break some system utilities such as java-config. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install gentoo 1.4 starting with stage 1. 2. Note that python is upgraded to version 2.3 by the time that installation is finished. 3. Run java-config. Note that it fails because the java_config module cannot be imported. 4. Note that there is a /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages directory and a .../python2.3/site-packages directory, and each has completely different contents. 5. Note that java-config uses python2.3, but it requires a module found only within the python2.2/site-packages directory. Actual Results: u2 linux # java-config Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/java-config", line 14, in ? from java_config import jc_options ImportError: No module named java_config u2 linux # ls -l /usr/bin/python* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Feb 18 16:09 /usr/bin/python -> python2.3 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 178 Feb 18 16:09 /usr/bin/python-config lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Feb 18 16:09 /usr/bin/python2 -> python2.3 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 899224 Sep 10 21:55 /usr/bin/python2.2 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3956 Feb 18 16:09 /usr/bin/python2.3 u2 linux # ls -l /usr/lib/python*/site-packages /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages: total 477 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 119 Sep 10 21:55 README -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9221 Sep 10 20:51 cvstree.py -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10931 Feb 18 11:57 cvstree.pyc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5660 Sep 10 20:51 dispatch_conf.py -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 16380 Feb 18 13:19 fchksum.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14126 Sep 10 20:51 getbinpkg.py -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18769 Feb 18 11:57 getbinpkg.pyc drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 504 Feb 22 22:11 java_config -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5508 Feb 18 11:56 missingos.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2238 Sep 10 20:51 output.py -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6113 Feb 18 11:57 output.pyc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 163029 Sep 10 20:51 portage.py -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 182082 Feb 18 11:57 portage.pyc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9846 Sep 10 20:51 xpak.py -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15286 Feb 18 11:57 xpak.pyc /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages: total 1025 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 119 Feb 18 16:09 README -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15097 Feb 22 21:15 drv_libxml2.py -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 261372 Feb 22 21:15 libxml2.py -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 333940 Feb 22 21:15 libxml2mod.a -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 855 Feb 22 21:15 libxml2mod.la -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 254172 Feb 22 21:15 libxml2mod.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 35808 Feb 22 21:22 libxslt.py -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 68112 Feb 22 21:22 libxsltmod.a -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 907 Feb 22 21:22 libxsltmod.la -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 53720 Feb 22 21:22 libxsltmod.so drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 504 Feb 22 21:34 mx Expected Results: When emerge upgraded python to version 2.3, it should have populated /usr/lib/python2.3/site- packages with the contents of the python2.2/site-packages directory. This happens on various systems. Here is "emerge info'' from one of them: Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.6.3-gentoo) ============================================================ ===== System uname: 2.6.3-gentoo i686 AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 244 Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.7.7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=i686 -funroll-loops -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/ config /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=i686 -funroll-loops -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/ distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X acpi acpi4linux antlr apm arts avi bcel berkdb bonobo bsh clisp cmucl crypt cscope cups curl dillo dnd doc dumb-allegro dv emacs emacs-w3 encode esd ethereal etwin evo exiscan-acl expat firebird flac flash foomaticdb foreign-package foreign-sysvinit freetds fs gdbm gif gimpprint ginac gmtsuppl gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hbci hdf hdf5 imagemagick imap imlib innodb ipv6 jack jack-caps java javamail javascript jbig jdepend jikes jpeg junit jython kde ladcca libdsk libg++ libgda libwww lids log4j mad mcal md5sum mdb mikmod motif mozaccess mozcalendar mozinterfaceinfo mpeg mpi mule ncurses neXt nls nptl objc ocaml oci8 odbc offensive ofx oggvorbis opengl opie optional-tasks oro ospfapi oss pam parse-clocks pcap pdflib perl physfs pic plotutils png postgres ppds python qt quicktime radius readline regexp rhino rplay ruby samba sasl scanner sdk sdl slang slp snmp sox speex spell sqlite ssl stroke svga tcltk tcpd tcsim tiff truetype usb wmf wxwin wxwindows x86 xalan xerces xfs xml2 xmms xv zeo zlib"
did you run the python package updater like the post-install output said to ?
I can't say for sure whether I ran the updater or not. I take notes during the install, and this step isn't listed, so I assume that I didn't do it. As a rule, I do everything that emerge post-install scripts recommend, but I suspect that some post-install output slips past me unnoticed. (This can easily happen whenever emerge updates more than one package; it emits the post-install output but then continues onward spitting out the output from the next package being built. Under these conditions, it's easy to miss important post-install messages buried among thousands of lines from makefiles and install scripts.) Since it's safe to run python-updater multiple times, I ran it just now. Nothing changed. :-( 2004/02/23 20:44:27 - Starting Python Updater from 2.2 to 2.3 : 2004/02/23 20:44:27 - Searching for packages with files in /usr/lib/python2.2 .. 2004/02/23 20:44:30 - Calculating Upgrade Package List .. 2004/02/23 20:44:30 - Re-ordering packages to merge .. 2004/02/23 20:44:30 - Preparing to merge these packages in this order: 2004/02/23 20:44:30 - Python update completed successfully.
not a bug, all those files are portage's things and they've been moved to /usr/lib/portage/pym i remember portage's ebuild trying to clean those files, but in theory they don't affect anything since any recent version of portage will be using python2.3 and not touch the python2.2 files.
