[Setup] Re: version error during /bin/buildout

[Gary Koskenmaki]

On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 08:44 +0000, Martin Aspeli wrote:
> Gary Koskenmaki wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I was building a plone3 install today when the following error popped up
> > when running /bin/buildout:
> > 
> > While:
> >   Installing plone.
> > Error: There is a version conflict.
> > We already have: plone.portlets 1.1.0a1
> > but plone.app.portlets 1.1.0a1 requires 'plone.portlets>=1.1dev'.
> > 
> > How can I satisy this error?  This is the initial plone3 install on this
> > machine.   It's a Debian Etch server using only Debian Python packages
> > other than what /bin/buildout and "easy_install ZopeSkel" have
> > downloaded and installed up to this point.  
> 
> Can you paste your buildout.cfg?
> 
> What happens if you do:
> 
> [plone]
> recipe = plone.recipe.plone>=3.0,<3.1dev
> 
> You may need to remove .installed.cfg (not leading dot) in the buildout 
> and run again.
> 
> Martin
> 
I asked on the plone chat channel about this problem and would just like
to confirm here that the .installed.cfg file is missing on this server.
I can find it on all other plone3 installs I have created using buildout
on other servers, just not this one.  

Could I possibly have a corrupted OS install or something like that?
It's weird that the installer is not generating a file that it should
be.