Allan McRae (2010-08-18 01:46):
Hi,
I have pushed the new python (3.1) and python2 (2.7) packages to the new [staging] repo so rebuilds can start there. Remember the staging repo should never be used outside a build chroot... If you do, everything python related will break on your system.
TUs will not be able to start uploading rebuilds yet as they do not have a staging equivalent, but we will sort something out for them once we get all the db-scripts/devtools changes tested for the main one first. The package pool is going to save us a heap of issues when this gets moved so it is worth the wait.
The key things to remember with the rebuild are:
- build in clean chroots. Most packages will detect "python2" or "python-2.7" once they see no "python" and use that. Some will need simple patching.
- change your dependencies to python2
- check files for #!'s with "/usr/bin/python" or "/usr/bin/env python". If you have those you will need to do a sed to change them to python2.
Me wonders what is planned for e.g. pyqt, which is available for both, python2 and python3? Thanks, -- Rogutės Sparnuotos