Bug 280229

Summary:	eselect-python via new bash script wrapper breaks: eselect python show
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	jon R-B <jon.roadleybattin>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://gentoo.org
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	/usr/share/eselect/modules/python.eselect patch to support bash wrapper

Description jon R-B 2009-08-03 22:14:16 UTC

at present the eselect-python module has been updated to generate a python bash wrapper script (for python multiABI support?) 
Problem is other supporting function of eselect (show and list) are not fully supported for this method

eselect python show 
output: python

eselect python list
output:
Available python interpreters:
  [1]   python2.5
  [2]   python2.6
  [3]   python3.1

both these output rely on the output of a bash function: canonicalise 
which is essentially /bin/readlink -f "$@"
problem is /usr/bin/python is no longer a symlink

Suggested patch checks if /usr/bin/python is a symlink. If so continues as normal, if not performs a grep to extract the python version from the bash script 

eselect python show
python2.6
FluidMotion libs # eselect python list
Available python interpreters:
  [1]   python2.5
  [2]   python2.6 *
  [3]   python3.1


output as per old 



Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 jon R-B 2009-08-03 22:15:37 UTC

Created attachment 200064 [details]
/usr/share/eselect/modules/python.eselect patch to support bash wrapper

Comment 2 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-08-03 22:23:56 UTC

This bug will be fixed by the patch available in bug #279915.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 279915 ***