On 12/09/2015 07:15 AM, Gregory Haynes wrote: > We ran in to a couple issues adding Fedora 23 support to > diskimage-builder caused by python2 not being installed by default. > This can be solved pretty easily by installing python2, but given that > this is eventually where all our supported distros will end up I would > like to find a better long term solution (one that allows us to make > images which have the same python installed that the distro ships by > default).
So I wonder if we're maybe hitting premature optimisation with this > We use +x and a #! to specify a python > interpreter, but this needs to be python3 on distros which do not ship a > python2, and python elsewhere. > Create a symlink in the chroot from /usr/local/bin/dib-python to > whatever the apropriate python executable is for that distro. This is a problem for anyone wanting to ship a script that "just works" across platforms. I found a similar discussion about a python launcher at [1] which covers most points and is more or less what is described above. I feel like contribution to some sort of global effort in this regard might be the best way forward, and then ensure dib uses it. -i [1] https://mail.python.org/pipermail/linux-sig/2015-October/000000.html __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
