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diff --git a/metadata/news/2017-01-21-python-exec-2-3-reclaims-python-symlinks/2017-01-21-python-exec-2-3-reclaims-python-symlinks.en.txt b/metadata/news/2017-01-21-python-exec-2-3-reclaims-python-symlinks/2017-01-21-python-exec-2-3-reclaims-python-symlinks.en.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..4aa341514ac4 --- /dev/null +++ b/metadata/news/2017-01-21-python-exec-2-3-reclaims-python-symlinks/2017-01-21-python-exec-2-3-reclaims-python-symlinks.en.txt @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +Title: python-exec 2.3 reclaims python* symlinks +Author: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> +Content-Type: text/plain +Posted: 2017-01-21 +Revision: 1 +News-Item-Format: 1.0 +Display-If-Installed: <app-eselect/eselect-python-20160206 +Display-If-Installed: <dev-lang/python-exec-2.3 + +The new versions of python-exec (2.3 and newer) are reclaiming multiple +Python-related symlinks in /usr/bin, most notably /usr/bin/python*. This +may result in your package manager reporting file collisions. + +The respective symlinks were previously either unowned and created +dynamically by app-eselect/eselect-python, or installed by it. From now +on, all Python-related symlinks are installed and handled +by python-exec. This ensures that they respect the python-exec +configuration files and variables consistently with regular Python +packages, and improves their reliability. + +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. + +The potentially colliding files are: + + * /usr/bin/2to3 + * /usr/bin/idle + * /usr/bin/pydoc + * /usr/bin/python + * /usr/bin/python2 + * /usr/bin/python3 + * /usr/bin/python-config + +For more information on python-exec, please see: +https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Python/python-exec |