On Thu, 2018-03-15 at 13:33 +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
The 'brew upgrade' command is pulling in the python2 package
which
promptly fails due to clashing symlinks installed by the new python
package (which is python3 based):
==> Pouring python(a)2-2.7.14_3.sierra.bottle.tar.gz
Error: The `brew link` step did not complete successfully
The formula built, but is not symlinked into /usr/local
Could not symlink bin/2to3-2
Target /usr/local/bin/2to3-2
is a symlink belonging to python. You can unlink it:
brew unlink python
To force the link and overwrite all conflicting files:
brew link --overwrite python@2
To list all files that would be deleted:
brew link --overwrite --dry-run python@2
By running 'brew unlink python' we can get rid of the python3 links that
we didn't want in the first place and avoid this error.
The behavior of homebrew with respect to linking seems completely
insane to me. Why would you need to manually apply a workaround in
order to upgrade an existing system?
Anyway, this seems to work, so
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna(a)redhat.com>
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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization