[OE-core] [PATCH 2/2] python: Fix minimal packaging dependencies

[Gary Thomas]

On 2012-03-23 09:48, Martin Jansa wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 04:35:53PM +0100, Martin Jansa wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 09:27:08AM -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
>>> If you install the top-level python package only on a minimal
>>> system which has no other python packages installed then python
>>> is not functional at all.  Without any extra packages installed
>>> this error is seen:
>>>    # python
>>>    Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site.py", line 64, in<module>
>>>        import traceback
>>>    ImportError: No module named traceback
>>>
>>> Installing python-lang only partly fixes the problem as this
>>> error still exists:
>>>    # python
>>>    Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site.py", line 569, in<module>
>>>        main()
>>>      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site.py", line 551, in main
>>>        known_paths = addusersitepackages(known_paths)
>>>      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site.py", line 278, in addusersitepackages
>>>        user_site = getusersitepackages()
>>>      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site.py", line 253, in getusersitepackages
>>>        user_base = getuserbase() # this will also set USER_BASE
>>>      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site.py", line 243, in getuserbase
>>>        USER_BASE = get_config_var('userbase')
>>>      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/sysconfig.py", line 520, in get_config_var
>>>        return get_config_vars().get(name)
>>>      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/sysconfig.py", line 400, in get_config_vars
>>>        import re
>>>    ImportError: No module named re
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Gary Thomas<gary at mlbassoc.com>
>>> ---
>>>   meta/recipes-devtools/python/python_2.7.2.bb |    3 ++-
>>>   1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python_2.7.2.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python_2.7.2.bb
>>> index 8111b31..f1ba42d 100644
>>> --- a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python_2.7.2.bb
>>> +++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python_2.7.2.bb
>>> @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
>>>   require python.inc
>>>   DEPENDS = "python-native bzip2 db gdbm openssl readline sqlite3 zlib"
>>> -PR = "${INC_PR}.8"
>>> +PR = "${INC_PR}.9"
>>>
>>>   DISTRO_SRC_URI ?= "file://sitecustomize.py"
>>>   DISTRO_SRC_URI_linuxstdbase = ""
>>> @@ -123,6 +123,7 @@ py_package_preprocess () {
>>>   require python-${PYTHON_MAJMIN}-manifest.inc
>>
>> This should be fixed probably in
>> scripts/contrib/python/generate-manifest-2.7.py
>>
>>>
>>>   # manual dependency additions
>>> +RRDEPENDS_${PN} = "${PN}-lang ${PN}-re"
>>
>> And here is typo, how did you test this change?
>
> And also notice that there is no ${PN} in PACKAGES, so by "top-level
> python package" you mean python-core right?

Yes.  As far as my testing, it got muddled with something else and
what I've proposed doesn't help, sorry.  I'm looking into how to fix
this via the generate-manifest script and will send a different patch
shortly [I hope].

Query: if I change the script, should I also bum PR in this recipe?


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