Bug 494918 – dev-lang/python: Force eselect python update on upgrades

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE

[Description Rick Farina (Zero_Chaos) 2013-12-21 03:03:45 UTC]

It would be awesome if there was a way to have python update automatically update my eselect target for me.  Obvious it shouldn't change the default interpreter but if 2.x updates we could update --python2 and 3.x could update --python3.

Mostly this is an issue for those of us who update from a completely unattended script.  With the new python-r1 eclasses becoming widely used I think it is pretty safe to do this by default, but I'd be happy with a use flag or a magic envvar or w/e the python team feels fit to provide.

[Comment 1 Mike Gilbert 2013-12-21 04:19:39 UTC]

Created attachment 365792 [details, diff]
Add ESELECT_PYTHON_UPDATE_FORCE variable

[Comment 2 Mike Gilbert 2013-12-21 04:23:52 UTC]

Created attachment 365794 [details, diff]
Cleanup eselect_python_update function

The first patch is pretty safe. Let me know if that works for you. Did you want this on the stable ebuilds as well, or does ~arch suffice?

Also, I would like to apply this second cleanup patch, but it is a little risky. If you could do me a favor and run it through a stage1 build when you have some time that would be most appreciated.

[Comment 3 Michał Górny 2013-12-21 08:41:16 UTC]

Optionally, we could use PYTHON_TARGETS to do extra safety check before switching. That is, switch only if user has appropriate target enabled.

[Comment 4 Mike Gilbert 2013-12-21 13:54:28 UTC]

(In reply to Michał Górny from comment #3)

Any details on how you would implement that? Adding python_targets to IUSE on dev-lang/python is a bit awkward.

[Comment 5 Michał Górny 2018-04-21 21:46:07 UTC]

We no longer really want to use eselect-python automatically.