Bug 28327

Summary:	Portage breaks under Python 2.3 (includes patch)
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Carlos Castillo <carlos>
Component:	Unclassified	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	liquidx
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	Patch to fix Portage under Python 2.3

Description Carlos Castillo 2003-09-09 22:46:17 UTC

This patch solves the most obvius problems with Portage under Python 2.3. Its a
one liner (after a lot of tries).

Comment 1 Carlos Castillo 2003-09-09 22:47:47 UTC

Created attachment 17391 [details, diff]
Patch to fix Portage under Python 2.3

the patch

Comment 2 Alastair Tse (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-09-10 07:21:44 UTC

i'm not sure whether it was ever intended for os.environ.copy() to not actually be a copy but a reference to the os.environ object.

i recommended a similar fix but on another bug. it is up to the portage devs to figure which is the best way to fix this problem

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 28342 ***