----- Original Message ----- > From: "Nick Coghlan" <ncogh...@redhat.com> > To: python-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > Sent: Thursday, August 7, 2014 10:00:51 AM > Subject: Re: Python 2.7 SSL upgrade patch available for testing > > On 07/30/2014 12:16 AM, Bohuslav Kabrda wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > >> PEP 466 approved bring the core Python 2 network security infrastructure > >> up to speed with the modern internet. > >> > >> Alex Gaynor has provided a draft patch of the most complex part of that > >> PEP, backporting the bulk of the Python 3.4 SSL module to Python 2.7: > >> http://bugs.python.org/issue21308#msg223895 > >> > >> This is also the part of the PEP most likely to break things, so > >> figuring out a way to test it in Fedora before it makes it into an > >> upstream CPython release would be a good idea... > > > > We could create a copr repo where we would rebuild python (in an SCL?) with > > these patches and then we'd rebuild some modules that use ssl - to see if > > the tests pass and if they're actually usable. The disadvantage of this > > approach is that it just takes lots of time to implement... > > Or, if we're feeling lucky, we can just build Python with these patches in > > rawhide and see if something breaks :) That's easy and fast (assuming > > everything works fine). > > > > I'd really love to help here, but I really can't spare enough time to do it > > "properly" in Copr as noted above. > > So the question is, are we feeling lucky? :) I'd say yes, since rawhide has > > just recently become future Fedora 22 and not much is going on in there > > right now. If we break something, we can just revert it quickly and > > everything will be fine. > > > > Is someone strictly against this or shall I move on with patching our > > rawhide Python? > > Patching rawhide would be wonderful. The patch is at last passing > Python's own test suite, so it shouldn't have broken anything too > dramatically. > > Cheers, > Nick. > > -- > Nick Coghlan > Red Hat Hosted & Shared Services > Software Engineering & Development, Brisbane > > HSS Provisioning Architect > _______________________________________________ > python-devel mailing list > python-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/python-devel
Hi everyone, I am willing to work on this starting next week (atm I am at flock), I will test it along with some ssl dependent packages. Regards, Robert Kuska ----------------------------------------------------- rkuska @ #fedora-devel on freenode #brno #gulag #software-collections on brq.redhat _______________________________________________ python-devel mailing list python-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/python-devel
