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Bug 574140 - sys-apps/portage: Fails hard if /usr/bin/python becomes broken
Summary: sys-apps/portage: Fails hard if /usr/bin/python becomes broken
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Portage Development
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Core (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal critical
Assignee: Portage team
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Reported: 2016-02-07 22:58 UTC by Michał Górny
Modified: 2016-02-07 23:02 UTC (History)
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Description Michał Górny archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2016-02-07 22:58:11 UTC
I'm pretty sure some of the magical logic in Portage was supposed to make sure it calls the currently used interpreter directly rather than relying on /usr/bin/python working. However, I just got an issue where broken /usr/bin/python has caused internal portage helpers to fail hard and brick Portage for me. I'm going to investigate more.
Comment 1 Michał Górny archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2016-02-07 23:02:47 UTC
Oh, nevermind. Just noticed it was due to python executable rename from python3.4m to python3.4.