Re: Something broke in genpkgmetadata.py?

On 11/12/2010 02:49 AM, Anders F Björklund wrote:
> David C. Rankin wrote:
> 
>> 	Nothing with createrepo has changed, could this be a python/python2 bug? I have
>> both the following installed:
>>
>> python 3.1.2-2
>> python2 2.7-3
> 
> Arch Linux has moved their "python" binary, so you need to patch...
> (all #!/usr/bin/python needs to be replaced with #!/usr/bin/python2)
> 
> We do similar things on Mac OS X and FreeBSD, where /usr/bin/python
> is outdated or non-existant. (real one is in /opt/local or /usr/local)
> 
> --anders
> 
> 
> PS. This broke a *lot* of python programs, not only yum...
>     See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Python#Python_2
> 
>     Almost everyone else has Python 3000 as "python3" instead.
>     (and "python2" doesn't exist, only python2.6 and friends)
> 

Ah!

	Thank you Anders & Seth. I knew something broke, but not knowing python from a
snake, all I knew was it changed. I also posted this with Arch so I'll see what
the devs think is the cleanest way to handle this with the distro.

	I'll probably have to post a follow-up after I had a chance to thoroughly
confuse myself. Thanks again for your help.

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