[arch-general] Handling python venv packages breaking on glibc update

[Oon-Ee Ng]

So reinstalling psycopg2 with `pip install --no-binary :all: psycopg2`
works. Still wondering whether this is an issue to raise upstream.

On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 5:41 PM, Oon-Ee Ng <ngoonee.talk at gmail.com> wrote:

> I use psycopg2 for postgres access in my pyramid web-app, and like most
> (all?) python developers all the dependencies are in a virtualenv,
> including psycopg2 itself.
>
> This means, of course, that the psycopg2 wheel is precompiled.
>
> With the recent glibc-2.26 update, I can no longer import psycopg2. This
> is the error message I get on the file libresolv-2-c4c53def.5.so:
>
> symbol __res_maybe_init, version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file
> libc.so.6 with link time reference
>
> I'm not sure why the psycopg2 pip package bundles in libresolv (which is
> part of glibc in Arch, explaining why the Arch psycopg2 package works fine,
> even without a recompile). Where's the right place for me to fix this? With
> the psycopg2 pip maintainers or somewhere else?
>