Bug 33754

Summary:	app-portage/lintool: updated ebuild for python-2.3 compatibilty
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	TGL <tom.gl>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Karl Trygve Kalleberg (RETIRED) <karltk>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	tove
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	33372
Attachments:	files/setup.py-0.2.4 lintool-0.2.4-r1.ebuild

Description TGL 2003-11-18 06:28:12 UTC

Hi, 

I've recently upgraded to python 2.3, and running the updater tool
I've seen that python-2.2 paths are hardcoded in the current lintool
-0.2.4 installation method. Here is a setup.py file to replace the
current Makefile, and an ebuild updated accordingly.


PS: yes, I know lintool is deprecated, but since it is still in the
tree and some people may, like me, still have it on their system, 
it's not completly useless to make it install correctly... is it? 

PS 2: is there a mail alias for the new portage tools herd, to assign 
this kind of reports?

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 TGL 2003-11-18 06:29:10 UTC

Created attachment 20910 [details]
files/setup.py-0.2.4

Comment 2 TGL 2003-11-18 06:38:25 UTC

Created attachment 20912 [details]
lintool-0.2.4-r1.ebuild

Based on 0.2.4-r1, but now using distutils.eclass. I think you don't
need to revision-bump it since:
 - people running python-2.2 don't have any trouble
 - the python updater script try to reinstall the exact already
   installed version, hence, overwriting the -r1, you ensure it
   will be updated when really needed. Only people already running
   python-2.3 may miss it, but this ones know what they do, right?

Comment 3 Torsten Veller (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-12-29 08:09:39 UTC

I ran into that problem today. The best would be to change the Makefile to check which python version is installed. A quick hack would be: DEPEND="=dev-lang/python-2.2"

Comment 4 TGL 2004-01-12 00:39:25 UTC

> A quick hack would be: DEPEND="=dev-lang/python-2.2"

That would work: python 2.2 and 2.3 are in different slot. If you install 2.2 and then 2.3, your "=dev-lang/python-2.2" dependency will be satisfied, but the install will still be broken because 2.3 will be the default for /usr/bin/python.

> The best would be to change the Makefile

Patching the Makefile is an option, but why implementing an adhoc fix whereas the distutils eclass already has the generic fix for modules that come with a setup.py file? Did you have troubles with this second solution (using the setup.py and ebuild I've attached)?

Comment 5 Alastair Tse (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-01-22 16:31:16 UTC

added a patch to lintool to make this work with python-2.3