the platform module is only used in 'emerge' and only to call uname() ... with python-2.2.x, the platform module does not exist ... but in all python versions so far (2.[2-4].x), os.uname() exists the only different is the 5th and last field (the processor, or `uname -p`) jstubbs mentioned that we dont *really* need that field ... so we have two choices: - dont refer to platform module and call os.uname() and dont include the 5th field - require python-2.3.x with portage-2.0.51* in the future i have no problem requiring a newer version of python to use portage if the features used are significant, but atm, this seems like a weak reason to require a newer version of python example output for you to ponder over: root@vapier 0 ~ # python -c 'import os; print os.uname()' ('Linux', 'vapier', '2.6.8.1', '#156 SMP Sun Aug 22 23:15:54 EDT 2004', 'i686') root@vapier 0 ~ # python -c 'import platform; print platform.uname()' ('Linux', 'vapier', '2.6.8.1', '#156 SMP Sun Aug 22 23:15:54 EDT 2004', 'i686', 'Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.80GHz') emerge does: unameout=platform.uname()[2]+" "+platform.uname()[4]+" "+platform.uname()[5]
Done.
Bug has been fixed and released in stable portages on or before 2.0.51-r2
