On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 8:02 AM, Stephen Gallagher <sgall...@redhat.com>
wrote:
> On 02/24/2016 09:58 AM, Kaleb S. KEITHLEY wrote:
>
>> On 02/24/2016 09:45 AM, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
>>
>>> On 02/24/2016 09:30 AM, Peter Robinson wrote:
>>>
>>>> 1) usually after the branch I build new packages for rawhide (i.e.
>>>>> $branch+1). But atm in the master branch, a `fedpkg build` gives me
>>>>>
>>>>> Could not execute build: Package glusterfs-3.7.8-1.fc24 has
>>>>> already
>>>>> been built
>>>>>
>>>>> Am I just too early? Or is there something missing that's preventing
>>>>> builds for f25.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The branching is ongoing, there was infrastructure issues last night
>>>> so it's taken a bit longer than planned.
>>>>
>>>> 2) Despite several articles out in the wild claiming that {F22,F23,F24}
>>>>> will switch to Python3 as the default, [1] would seem to indicate that
>>>>> the only thing we're going to see is 1) the update of Python3 from 3.4
>>>>> to 3.5, and 2) Python3 system-python and system-python-libs will be
>>>>> split out; however the default python will remain Python2.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is that correct?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Not really, py3 is the default by means of being the only python
>>>> shipped in a number of Fedora deliverables but there's also some that
>>>> can't move directly to pure python3 yet due to other issues (like
>>>> ansible only bein py2 at the moment). So it's a "it depends" answer.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> To supplement this, it's the default in the sense that packagers are
>>> expected to ship python3 packages if they are supported upstream and if
>>> the package includes the same binary executable name for py2 and py3,
>>> only the py3 package should ship it.
>>>
>>
>> I guess I don't really grok what that means. And/or I didn't frame my
>> question very well.
>>
>> I installed a fresh rawhide Fedora/Server two days ago.
>>
>> It has both python-2.7.11-4.fc24.x86_64 and python3-3.5.1-4.fc24.x86_64.
>>
>
> Yeah, this is because the Samba and FreeIPA packages didn't quite finish
> their python 3 conversion in time. By F25, we should be able to avoid
> shipping python 2 in the default installation of Fedora Server.
>
>
> /usr/bin/python is a symlink to python2.
>>
>> Under what circumstances will /usr/bin/python be Python3?
>>
>
> Under no circumstances whatsoever :)
>
> "Python 3 by default" != /usr/bin/python -> /usr/bin/python3
>
At one point it did mean that (
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Python_3_as_Default ) but the
decision for that to not be the case has not really been communicated well.
The original questions was just trying to clarify that the change for
"/usr/bin/python to continue linking to /usr/bin/python2" was Fedora's
current position.
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