Bug 333001 – net-misc/wicd-1.7.0 doesn't support Python 2.7

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Nickolas Grigoriadis 2010-08-16 12:39:57 UTC]

wicd 1.7.0 doesn't support Python 2.7
More info at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/wicd/+bug/602825

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

[Comment 1 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) 2010-09-07 15:50:26 UTC]

From the upstream bug, let's get a patch together that removes the offending code. Will you volunteer to test this out since I don't have py-2.7?

[Comment 2 Nickolas Grigoriadis 2010-09-08 02:23:47 UTC]

Yes, I'll do the testing.

[Comment 3 Nickolas Grigoriadis 2010-10-06 17:45:49 UTC]

The https://bugs.launchpad.net/wicd/+bug/602825/+attachment/1673953/+files/wicd-no-deepcopy.patch

patch works. but I needed to change the line 38 of wicd/configmanager.py to read:

RawConfigParser.__init__(self, allow_no_value=True)

allow_no_value parameter was only added on Python 2.7

The patch to add 2.7 support will break older compatibility.
Is is possible to make the code conditional based on python version?

Regards,
Nick

[Comment 4 Wicher Minnaard 2010-10-09 07:16:38 UTC]

Confirming this patch works over here, too, but not without the allow_no_value parameter from Nickolas.
I don't think the code should be conditional (py2.6/py2.7) at runtime, since one installs wicd for a specific python version. Maybe it's better to make the epatch line in the ebuild conditional, in such a way that the patch only gets applied when installing wicd for python 2.7.

[Comment 5 Jakub Caban 2010-11-29 11:48:42 UTC]

Version 1.7.1b2 released upstream supports Python-2.7 and works here on amd64 without problems. Bump is the matter of ebuild renaming.

[Comment 6 Joel 2010-11-29 18:47:04 UTC]

(In reply to comment #5)
> Version 1.7.1b2 released upstream supports Python-2.7 and works here on amd64
> without problems. Bump is the matter of ebuild renaming.
> 

Could you please upload an ebuild? I've been trying with no luck :(

[Comment 7 Joel 2010-11-29 18:56:48 UTC]

(In reply to comment #6)
> (In reply to comment #5)
> > Version 1.7.1b2 released upstream supports Python-2.7 and works here on amd64
> > without problems. Bump is the matter of ebuild renaming.
> > 
> 
> Could you please upload an ebuild? I've been trying with no luck :(
> 

Forget that. I'm uploading it right now

[Comment 8 Joel 2010-11-29 18:57:13 UTC]

Created attachment 255859 [details]
wicd 1.7 latest

[Comment 9 Xavier Miller (RETIRED) 2010-11-30 08:10:19 UTC]

Hello,

This ebuild works for me with python-2.7.1. The curses and X User Interfaces work too.

[Comment 10 François Périchon 2010-11-30 18:06:06 UTC]

This ebuild worked correctly with my python 2.7.1 install and solved my problem too.

[Comment 11 Emmanuel Andry 2010-12-01 19:25:51 UTC]

Any hope to see it on portage soon ? I think a lot of users should be in trouble since python 2.7.1 is unmasked...

[Comment 12 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) 2010-12-01 19:39:24 UTC]

+*wicd-1.7.1_beta2 (01 Dec 2010)
+
+  01 Dec 2010; Jeremy Olexa <[e-mail]> +wicd-1.7.1_beta2.ebuild:
+  Quick version bump to add the beta to ~arch for python-2.7 support,
+  mainly. (bug 333001).

Thanks for testing/feedback.

[Comment 13 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) 2010-12-01 20:12:59 UTC]

*** Bug 347475 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 14 Saleh Alsanad 2011-03-26 00:10:53 UTC]

I confirm that the ebuild worked with me