Am 30.09.2016 um 16:39 schrieb Marius Bakke: > Also some packages are missing a dependency on "python-py"[1].
FYI: I found an example: python-pytest-cov fails in the "check" phase. This is an undocumented requirement for the tests, resp. this is an install-requirement for pytest, but pytest has "python-py" defined as a normal input. I investigated this and found that the existing build-system was kind of broken :-( Prior to my changes, a .pth file was created in in many cases - while now it is never creates. (For those not common to Python: .pth-files are an old way to specify additional directories to be added to sys.path (PYTHONPATH). .pth-file were rarely used until setuptools and easy-install came up. And now since pip is the recommended install method, they are bound to vanish again.) This .pth file did not only point to the .egg-directory (or file, in case of a zipped .egg), but also to the .eggs of the requirement of the current package. In the case of pytest, the .pth file looked something like thus: ./pytest-1.2.3.egg /gnu/store/…-python-py-3.2.1/lib/python3.4/site-packages/py-3.2.1.egg Thus the .pth-file did "propagate" the inputs. Due to my change the .pth-file is gone now, and thus all required inputs need to be declared as propageded-inputs as uix. I'm working on this, but it requires to have a look at many of the packages' source to do it right and will take some days to finish. -- Regards Hartmut Goebel | Hartmut Goebel | h.goe...@crazy-compilers.com | | www.crazy-compilers.com | compilers which you thought are impossible |
