[arch-dev-public] The "Great Python Rebuild of 2010" begins

[Allan McRae]

On 18/08/10 01:58, Dan McGee wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Allan McRae<allan at 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.
>
> Perhaps the "universal sed statement" should go on the wiki? Just an
> initial stab:
>
> find $srcdir -name '*.py' -print0 | xargs sed -i -e
> 's|#!/usr/bin/python#!/usr/bin/python2#' -e 's|#!/usr/bin/env
> python#!/usr/bin/env python2#'

I think you got delimiter confusion there!  I find that mostly the *.py 
files will be in one directory so a find is not necessary.

Allan