[OE-core] [PATCH] python-numpy: Avoid installing copy of f2py script

[Khem Raj]

On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 7:58 AM Richard Purdie <
richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 2019-05-20 at 07:52 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
> > On Sun, May 19, 2019 at 11:56 PM Alejandro Enedino Hernandez
> > Samaniego <alejandro.enedino.hernandez-samaniego at xilinx.com> wrote:
> > > Hey Khem,
> > >
> > >
> > > On 5/18/19 10:09 PM, Khem Raj wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On 5/17/19 4:49 PM, Alejandro Enedino Hernandez Samaniego wrote:
> > > >> Both python-numpy and python3-numpy try to install the file:
> > > >>
> > > >> ${D}/${bindir}/f2py
> > > >>
> > > >> which causes an error during do_rootfs since the package
> > > manager
> > > >> complains about that.
> > > >>
> > > >> The numpy packages create basically copies of f2py script with
> > > the
> > > >> following names:
> > > >> f2py (on both)
> > > >> f2py2 (on python 2)
> > > >> f2py2.7 (on python 2)
> > > >> f2py3 (on python 3)
> > > >> f2py3.7 (on python 3)
> > > >>
> > > >> Remove the copy of f2py from python-numpy in favor of using the
> > > one
> > > >> from python3
> > > >> to avoid installation issues at do_rootfs().
> > > >>
> > > >
> > > > what if one does not install py3 ?
> > >
> > >
> > > If you only install py2, you could still execute f2py2 or f2py2.7,
> > > I'm
> > > simply
> > >
> > > favoring the py3 installation by default but it should be mostly
> > > harmless
> > >
> > > since there's still two other copies of the script with different
> > > names.
> >
> > I think it should be such that it’s used from py2 if py3 is not
> > installed since otherwise it might break scripts
>
> Given we're strongly favouring py3 now, I'd hope there aren't many such
> users and if there are, this might encourage them to move to py3? I'm
> not too worried about the lack of a py2 case for this as do we really
> want to add the complexity?
>
> If there are a load of py2 users and this will break things for them,
> fine but are there such users?


Yes I know people using py2 only but then they might not be using this
utility specifically so it might be okay to ignore it for now

>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>
>
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