Bug 14058

Summary:	Zope conflicts in required python version with portage
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Axxackall <axxackall>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Daniel Ahlberg (RETIRED) <aliz>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	h3y, kutsuya
Priority:	High
Version:	1.4_rc2
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Axxackall 2003-01-16 14:54:06 UTC

Recent Zope 2.6 requires python 2.1, but recent portage requires python 2.2. I
suggest to mask Zope until such serious conflict is fixed.

Suggested earlier binary ebuild with own python "inside" is for x86 and thus it
doesn't help to PPC and Sparc users. Instead, the source-based ebuild must
download and install its own required python inside the Zope.

Alternatively, there should be a way to install both python versions.

Comment 1 Maurizio Disimino 2003-01-27 03:14:30 UTC

#  emerge -p zope
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild    UD] dev-lang/python-2.1.3-r1 [2.2.2]
[ebuild  N   ] net-www/zope-2.6.0-r1 

> Recent Zope 2.6 requires python 2.1, but recent portage requires python 2.2.
so? They are slot'd. That means you can have both installed.

Comment 2 Jason Shoemaker (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-02-06 12:23:29 UTC

In the http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=30060 Web design thread, I tested for this problem you speak of.  Having two versions of python installed wasn't a problem for me, because python is SLOTed(as Maurizio points out also).

If this is still a problem, please document the problem so that it can be repeated. Thank you.