New submission from Stef Walter <s...@memberwebs.com>: In Lib/distutils/util.py in the get_platform() function there's OS specific code to create a string which describes the current platform. This usually includes the OS + version + arch.
FreeBSD specific code is missing from this function. Currently get_platform() returns a string specific to the security patch level of freebsd. For example: freebsd-7.2-RELEASE-p3-i386 This results in eggs that only work on a specific patch level release of FreeBSD and are not portable between (for example) 7.2-RELEASE-p2 and 7.2-RELEASE-p3. However FreeBSD is actually binary compatible within a major version number. For example 7.1 and 7.2 are binary compatible. This patch adds freebsd specific code to get_platform() after which it will return a string like: freebsd-7-i386 ---------- assignee: tarek components: Distutils files: patch-python-distutils-osrel.diff keywords: patch messages: 93050 nosy: stefw, tarek severity: normal status: open title: Add specific get_platform() for freebsd type: behavior versions: Python 2.4, Python 2.5, Python 2.6, Python 2.7 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file14961/patch-python-distutils-osrel.diff _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6983> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
