Re: [yocto] Arch Linux - Python Newer than Recommend i.e. post 3.12

Greetings,
Pinging this email as its been a few weeks and not sure if the patches 
have been backported.

Thanks,
Nick

On 2/6/26 5:49 PM, Nicholas Krause wrote:
> Greetings,
> I'm on kirkenstone currently. So backporting the patches is probably 
> best. However, what's the longterm strategy around this as its been a 
> program for several years on more bleeding edge distributions i.e. Arch? 
> Even when were talking mainline its a problem with Arch sometimes.
> 
> Thanks,
> Nick
> 
> On 2/5/26 5:40 AM, Ross Burton wrote:
>> On 5 Feb 2026, at 02:37, Nicholas Krause via lists.yoctoproject.org 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> _pickle.PicklingError: Can't pickle local object <function 
>>> AsyncServer.serve_as_process.<locals>.run at 0x7fea88598a90>
>>> when serializing dict item '_target'
>>> when serializing multiprocessing.context.Process state
>>>
>>> Due to being on Python 3.14. I would prefer not to have to use a 
>>> backwards supported penv for Yocto alone. Does anyone have any 
>>> experience with working on Arch and how to avoid these issues without 
>>> either dealing with penv or yay for getting a older version of 
>>> python, pre 3.12 I believe.
>>
>> There’s a number of fixes for the 3.14 changes to multiprocessing in 
>> git, so you likely need to backport those. What version of Yocto are 
>> you using?
>>
>> Ross
>>
>