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

[Martin Aspeli]

Michael Hierweck wrote:
> Gary Koskenmaki wrote:
>> On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 18:36 +0100, Michael Hierweck wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Michael Hierweck wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Gary Koskenmaki wrote:
>>>>> 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'.
>>>>>>>
>>> Gary wrote he used Debian tools to look for some files. I'm using Debian
>>> (Etch), too.
>>>
>>> Since no one else whether here nor on IRC knew about this problem I
>>> considerd there might be a causal relationship between that problem and
>>> Debian.
>>>
>>   
>> Just out of curiousity, since you ran into the same problem I did, were
>> you able to find .installed.cfg on your system after the failed
>> buildout?  It was not generated on my system, but has been generated on
>> 3 other identical buildouts I did using Etch a few months back.  
> 
> It was possible for to create Plone 3.0 buildouts using Etch. I did this
> about three weeks ago for the last time. Trying to create Plone 3.1
> buildouts I received the above mentioned error message and the file
> ".installed.cfg" was _not_ created. After downloading and compiling
> Python 2.4 and installing Paste Script and ZopeSkel the error did not
> appear any more. The error is still reproducable. It depends on the
> python interpreter used (/usr/bin/python2.4 vs.
> /opt/python/2.4.4/bin/python2.4) thought both are 2.4.4.

That's worrysome. Can you paste the exact buildout.cfg that caused this 
problem (even if it were generated, I'd like to see it), and the exact 
error. Run buildout with the -vvv flag to get more output and paste the 
whole command run.

Thanks,
Martin

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