Bug 521940

Event posted on 04-30-2009 08:36pm EDT by woodard

The problem is that when we just do /usr/bin/env python if the user including root happens to have a different path like /usr/local/ and this has a different python e.g. python 2.6 then our script might not run. 

Many scripts have been modified to call "python2.4" rather than python directly. This seems to fix many of the problems but many scripts still remain.


Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:08:31 -0400
From: Subhendu Ghosh <sghosh>
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Subject: Re: languages and multi-ABI support
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woodard wrote:
> 
> 
> On Apr 28, 2009, at 7:00, Andrew Hecox <ahecox> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 27 Apr 2009, Andrew Hecox wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 27 Apr 2009, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>>>
>>>> Andrew Hecox (ahecox) said:
>>>>> Python 3 was released in late 2008. If we don't ship with it available
>>>>> in some means in RHEL6 GA we'll be *starting* 1.5 years behind.
>>>> And yet, nothing really uses it. Do we have actual customer requests
>>>> for this?
>>>
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=465950
>>>
>>> only one customer that I know of, LLNL, and they're odd-birds, at
>>> times. I can ask TAMs to ask their customers, if we're interested.
>>
>> re-iterating my offer to ask, if people are interested. Asking TAMs to
>> survey their customers isn't the most scientific way of collecting
>> market data, but it often beats 'random guess'.
>>
>> I don't want to ask if we don't care, since it's nice to not pester
>> people when their input won't get taken into account.
>>
> 
> Talked to some people here at LLNL and they aren't currently ready to
> move to Python 3 but wanted to hold open the possibility of moving to
> it. They said the most annoying thing is all the RH supplied scripts
> which use the Python idiom "env python" rather than an explicit path to
> the system RH supplied version of python. The problem is that this
> creates problems for any user who has a different version of python
> earlier in their path than the system python.

Can you file a bz for couple of scripts and cc me?

-regards
Subhendu

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Subhendu Ghosh
Red Hat
Phone: +1-201-232-2851
Email: sghosh

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 issue 291889

Event posted on 08-28-2009 01:42pm EDT by kbaxley

Ben,

I also asked about the possibility of getting the /usr/bin/env python
fixed for RHEL5 as well.  PM is fine with doing it, but, it won't be the
big sweep like what we're going to see for RHEL6.  In the case of RHEL5,
it'll be a case of filing tickets for every package where /usr/bin/env
python is used and address things on an individual basis.  If you're up
for doing this I'll be glad to help out in any way I can.  Thanks.

> From: Subhendu Ghosh <sghosh>
> Date: August 27, 2009 7:58:39 PM EDT
> To: Jeremy West <jwest>
> Subject: Re: Fwd: porting #!/usr/bin/env python fixes to RHEL5
>
> If GSS can find the the instances and file individual BZ - that  
> would be
> easiest way to attempt to fix them ofver a couple of releases. We  
> Cannot do a
> sweep as we are doing for RHEL6.
>
> Knowing about this helps. Only after GSS mentioned it did we take a  
> look at
> this for RHEL6. :)
>
> -regards
> subhendu


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 issue 291889

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