Bug 503116 – app-portage/gentoolkit-0.8.0.3-r2 - /usr/bin/equery is a symbolic link to ../lib/python-exec/python-exec2 which does not exist

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Portage Development

[Description Marcin Szamotulski 2014-03-01 12:38:33 UTC]

Created attachment 371488 [details]
output of emerge --info

After installing gentoolkit-0.8.0.3-r2 I have
ls -l /usr/bin/equery
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Mar  1 12:30 /usr/bin/equery -> ../lib/python-exec/python-exec2

And the ../lib/python-exec/python-exec2 is missing.

[Comment 1 Brian Dolbec (RETIRED) 2014-03-01 17:21:16 UTC]

Well, it is impossible for a gentoolkit install to unmerge python-exec after gentoolkit was emerged.  Which is what your indicating.  Something else unmerged python-exec.

The solution is to re-emerge dev-lang/python-exec:2  

Equery and any other python pkgs depending on python-exec should work again without needing to be rebuilt.

[Comment 2 Michał Górny 2014-03-01 17:28:46 UTC]

Isn't gentoolkit one of the packages that do not work with python-exec:0?

[Comment 3 Brian Dolbec (RETIRED) 2014-03-01 18:35:27 UTC]

It was due to the symlink problem, but Paul has changed gentoolkit to copy the start script to the elcean-pkg, eclean-dist names instead.  So, it should work with either, but I haven't tested it specifically.

[Comment 4 Marcin Szamotulski 2014-03-01 21:08:47 UTC]

I re-emerged dev-lang/python-exec:0 and it solved the problem.