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| author | V3n3RiX <venerix@redcorelinux.org> | 2021-09-10 04:21:55 +0100 |
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| committer | V3n3RiX <venerix@redcorelinux.org> | 2021-09-10 04:21:55 +0100 |
| commit | 677b7ba5c317778df2ad7e70df94b9b7eec4adbc (patch) | |
| tree | 6c418a1546fff5becab5d8b9ed6803323e7f316e /metadata/news/2021-09-05-setuptools_scm-6_3_0-temporary-breakage | |
| parent | fbda87924e6faa7a1919f1a2b4182490bde5ec5c (diff) | |
gentoo resync : 10.09.2021
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diff --git a/metadata/news/2021-09-05-setuptools_scm-6_3_0-temporary-breakage/2021-09-05-setuptools_scm-6_3_0-temporary-breakage.en.txt b/metadata/news/2021-09-05-setuptools_scm-6_3_0-temporary-breakage/2021-09-05-setuptools_scm-6_3_0-temporary-breakage.en.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..988002c7dc18 --- /dev/null +++ b/metadata/news/2021-09-05-setuptools_scm-6_3_0-temporary-breakage/2021-09-05-setuptools_scm-6_3_0-temporary-breakage.en.txt @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ +Title: setuptools_scm-6.3.0 temporary runtime breakage +Author: Arthur Zamarin <arthurzam@gentoo.org> +Author: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> +Posted: 2021-09-05 +Revision: 1 +News-Item-Format: 2.0 +Display-If-Installed: =dev-python/setuptools_scm-6.3.0 + +Users who upgraded to =dev-python/setuptools_scm-6.3.0 between 2021-09-03 +15:42 UTC and 2021-09-03 19:03 UTC may be affected by a bug [0]. If you have not +upgraded to this version or have >=dev-python/setuptools_scm-6.3.0-r1 installed, +you are not affected. + +A missing dependency in the setuptools_scm ebuild meant there was a timeframe in +which anyone who installed dev-python/setuptools_scm and dev-python/packaging in +the wrong order won't be able to build any Python package using setuptools +unless a workaround is applied. + +Specifically, this affects users with =dev-python/setuptools_scm-6.3.0 installed +and where dev-python/packaging is not installed (applies separately for each/any +Python target). The bad tree state was between gentoo.git commits +8882e54abf78d3af69faed5844e3ad441482f23e and +0c76b447cd1be9cf611f649970851750304d9ca6. + +Affected users will see errors similar to the following when installing Python +packages: +``` +pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: The 'packaging>=20.0' distribution was not +found and is required by the application +``` + +To fix this manually, you need to fully remove all dev-python/setuptools_scm +files by running the following commands: + +# Necessary to obtain a fixed version of setuptools_scm +$ emerge --sync + +# --unmerge is NOT advised normally, but is required to avoid setuptools picking +# up the runtime-broken setuptools_scm version when re-installing setuptools_scm +$ emerge --unmerge =dev-python/setuptools_scm-6.3.0 + +$ emerge --oneshot dev-python/setuptools dev-python/pyparsing dev-python/packaging +$ emerge --oneshot ">=dev-python/setuptools_scm-6.3.0-r1" + +Note that the version specifiers above are not strictly necessary if you have an +up-to-date copy of the tree but provide a safety net. + +[0] https://bugs.gentoo.org/811504 + |