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

Greetings,
Please forget. I've switched to scrathgap which works fine. Kirkenstone 
is frozen so I would not worry about my previous concerns.

Nick

On 2/22/26 12:58 AM, Nicholas Krause wrote:
> 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
>>>
>>
>