On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> wrote:

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.

If you come across a package that you can not easily fix, add it to http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Python_Todo_List#Packages_... and I will take a look at it.

Have fun, Allan

This would probably be also a good time to remind the maintainers that there are still packages left for the community cleanup.. only a few are still remaining. I would like to finally see the community cleanup marked as "complete" :) emerald-themes - ronald gnochm - dgriffiths grub-gfx - orphan kydpdict - jswierczynski libnewt - dgriffiths libnsbmp - dgriffiths libnsgif - dgriffiths libtrash - jswierczynski magickthumbnail - orphan man-pages-cs - jlichtblau man-pages-pt_br - jlichtblau mandvd - jlichtblau mdf2iso - dgriffiths miniracer - dgriffiths mt-daapd - orphan noyau - orphan nrg2iso - dgriffiths pork - jlichtblau premake - dgriffiths pstreams - dgriffiths pygoocanvas - orphan python-certtool - orphan python-geotypes - orphan python-gnupginterface - aschaefer python-pysqlite-legacy - ronald qt-recordmydesktop - dgriffiths qucs - spupykin sfarkxtc - jlichtblau shfs-utils - jlichtblau texlive-bibtexextra-doc - shusmann texlive-core-doc - shusmann texlive-fontsextra-doc - shusmann texlive-formatsextra-doc - shusmann texlive-games-doc - shusmann texlive-genericextra-doc - shusmann texlive-htmlxml-doc - shusmann texlive-humanities-doc - shusmann texlive-langcjk-doc - shusmann texlive-langcyrillic-doc - shusmann texlive-langextra-doc - shusmann texlive-langgreek-doc - shusmann texlive-latex3-doc - shusmann texlive-latexextra-doc - shusmann texlive-music-doc - shusmann texlive-pictures-doc - shusmann texlive-plainextra-doc - shusmann texlive-pstricks-doc - shusmann texlive-pstricks-doc - shusmann texlive-publishers-doc - shusmann texlive-science-doc - shusmann