On 21/01/17 16:36, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: > On 01/21/2017 10:49 AM, Michał Górny wrote: >> Please review the following news item. It was requested by users. >> Preferably I'd like to commit it today. > .. > >> If you are using FEATURES=collision-protect, Portage will reject >> the upgrade. If this is the case, please temporarily switch to >> FEATURES=protect-owned for the upgrade. >> >> If you are using FEATURES=protect-owned, Portage will verbosely warn >> about the file collisions but will proceed with the upgrade once >> determining no replaced files are owned. Please disregard the warning. > This change broke a stable system in my case without any of these features. > > world upgrade failed with * ERROR: dev-python/pycairo-1.10.0-r5::gentoo > failed (configure phase): due to > /usr/bin/env: ‘python’: No such file or directory > > system ended up with a broken symlink > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Jan 21 13:55 > /usr/bin/python -> python-wrapper > > additionally the original upgrade, after manually setting the updated > symlink, ended up with a > python-exec: Invalid impl in /etc/python-exec/python-exec.conf: python3.3 > > How was this allowed into stable? > python3.3 has been long-gone no?
But otherwise, I think this is exactly what someone was trying to forestall. How it got into the wild is another question......
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