Re: [gentoo-user] Installing python packages for different versions
Hi Florian.
** (Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 06:44:27PM +0200) Florian Philipp wrote:
Hi!
This is actually a follow-up for my thread Trouble installing Plone.
Following scenario: I have packages which run on python-2.4 and other
packages which work with 2.5. Zope is a prominent example of the 2.4 gang.
The problem: When I emerge a python package, for example
dev-python/imaging, it is only installed in the
/usr/lib/python-2.*/site-packages directory of the python version which
is currently enabled by eselect.
Naturally, this is the most recent version: 2.5. However, as soon as a
python-2.4 package depends on one of these other packages, it just
doesn't work because it expects them in /usr/lib/python-2.4/site-packages.
How am I supposed to work around this?
With regards to Zope and Plone, use python2.5 but have python2.4 installed
and use buildout[1] to fetch Zope/Plone.
Zope needs python2.4 with PIL. A quick fix, is to either symlink or
copy /usr/lib/python-2.5/site-packages/PIL* to
/usr/lib/python-2.4/site-packages/
You also need dev-libs/libxml2 (with python) and symlink/copy to
/usr/lib/python-2.4/site-packages/{libxml2*,drv_libxml2}
When Python dependencies are in place, you can use buildout to fetch Zope/Plone
For this you need dev-python/setuptools.
PS! When following the guide[1], remember to bootstrap and buildout with
python2.4.
eg: python2.4 bootstrap.py python2.4 ./bin/buildout
PSS! If you use sudo and have a restrictive umask for your user, you need to
lower
it to eg 022 before creating the buildout enviroment.
Regards,
Florian Philipp
Good luck :)
[1] http://plone.org/documentation/tutorial/buildout
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Khanh Nguyen
Re: [gentoo-user] Installing python packages for different versions
Khanh Nguyen schrieb:
Hi Florian.
** (Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 06:44:27PM +0200) Florian Philipp wrote:
Hi!
This is actually a follow-up for my thread Trouble installing Plone.
Following scenario: I have packages which run on python-2.4 and other
packages which work with 2.5. Zope is a prominent example of the 2.4 gang.
The problem: When I emerge a python package, for example
dev-python/imaging, it is only installed in the
/usr/lib/python-2.*/site-packages directory of the python version which
is currently enabled by eselect.
Naturally, this is the most recent version: 2.5. However, as soon as a
python-2.4 package depends on one of these other packages, it just
doesn't work because it expects them in /usr/lib/python-2.4/site-packages.
How am I supposed to work around this?
With regards to Zope and Plone, use python2.5 but have python2.4 installed
and use buildout[1] to fetch Zope/Plone.
Zope needs python2.4 with PIL. A quick fix, is to either symlink or
copy /usr/lib/python-2.5/site-packages/PIL* to
/usr/lib/python-2.4/site-packages/
You also need dev-libs/libxml2 (with python) and symlink/copy to
/usr/lib/python-2.4/site-packages/{libxml2*,drv_libxml2}
Thanks for the hint! Interestingly, zope works without such a
symlink/copy at the moment. Maybe it isn't needed for the tasks I've
done so far?
When Python dependencies are in place, you can use buildout to fetch
Zope/Plone
For this you need dev-python/setuptools.
PS! When following the guide[1], remember to bootstrap and buildout with
python2.4.
eg: python2.4 bootstrap.py python2.4 ./bin/buildout
PSS! If you use sudo and have a restrictive umask for your user, you need to
lower
it to eg 022 before creating the buildout enviroment.
Thanks for your answer but I have to say, this looks like a really
cumbersome workaround. Wouldn't it be better to make portage and
python-updater aware of this problem?
The update from python-2.4 to 2.5 was a minor one with only a few
incompatible packages. What shall happen when we stabilize 3.0? We'll
run into orders of magnitude more problems than we did till now if we
keep it as it is!
Do you think I should open a bug for this?
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Re: [gentoo-user] Installing python packages for different versions
On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 18:03:58 +0200 Florian Philipp li...@f_philipp.fastmail.net wrote: ... Thanks for your answer but I have to say, this looks like a really cumbersome workaround. Wouldn't it be better to make portage and python-updater aware of this problem? The update from python-2.4 to 2.5 was a minor one with only a few incompatible packages. What shall happen when we stabilize 3.0? We'll run into orders of magnitude more problems than we did till now if we keep it as it is! Do you think I should open a bug for this? I guess one way would be to create debian-like split between packages for one python version and another, so we'll have pyxml-0.8.4-py2.4 and pyxml-0.8.4-py2.5 and zope can request former as a dependency, which seem to be quite an ugly solution. Installing every package for each compatible python on system if some use-flag like multislot is enabled (it might also be impossible for some pkgs, which also sit in share/bin/lib) look better and somewhat easier - just a eselech switch flip and +x (un)installs. I wonder, what do you have in mind? -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Installing python packages for different versions
Mike Kazantsev schrieb: On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 18:03:58 +0200 Florian Philipp li...@f_philipp.fastmail.net wrote: ... Thanks for your answer but I have to say, this looks like a really cumbersome workaround. Wouldn't it be better to make portage and python-updater aware of this problem? The update from python-2.4 to 2.5 was a minor one with only a few incompatible packages. What shall happen when we stabilize 3.0? We'll run into orders of magnitude more problems than we did till now if we keep it as it is! Do you think I should open a bug for this? [...] Installing every package for each compatible python on system if some use-flag like multislot is enabled (it might also be impossible for some pkgs, which also sit in share/bin/lib) look better and somewhat easier - just a eselech switch flip and +x (un)installs. I wonder, what do you have in mind? I don't know. I'm not a python dev. Therefore I might not understand every aspect of the problem. I thought about something like this: eselect maintains a list of all enabled python slots and a primary one, not just the primary one like now. If nothing else is specified, every program uses this primary python version (just like now). Portage installs or symlinks all files which end up in the site-packages directory in the respective directories for every python slot enabled by eselect. python-updater could be augmented to do the necessary rebuilds when a new version is added or an old one removed from the list. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Installing python packages for different versions
On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 19:53:38 +0200 Florian Philipp li...@f_philipp.fastmail.net wrote: eselect maintains a list of all enabled python slots and a primary one, not just the primary one like now. If nothing else is specified, every program uses this primary python version (just like now). Portage installs or symlinks all files which end up in the site-packages directory in the respective directories for every python slot enabled by eselect. Many packages use C libs, linked against specific version of python.so library, so running it with another python version than it was compiled with will yield unpredictable results - it might work for 2.4-2.5 but I'm pretty sure it won't for 2.6-3.1. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Installing python packages for different versions
Hi! This is actually a follow-up for my thread Trouble installing Plone. Following scenario: I have packages which run on python-2.4 and other packages which work with 2.5. Zope is a prominent example of the 2.4 gang. The problem: When I emerge a python package, for example dev-python/imaging, it is only installed in the /usr/lib/python-2.*/site-packages directory of the python version which is currently enabled by eselect. Naturally, this is the most recent version: 2.5. However, as soon as a python-2.4 package depends on one of these other packages, it just doesn't work because it expects them in /usr/lib/python-2.4/site-packages. How am I supposed to work around this? My current workaround is to switch temporarily to python-2.4 and re-emerge the necessary packages. However, this only works as long as there are either 2.4-packages which depend on these re-emerged ones or 2.5-packages because portage purges the corresponding byte code in the now disabled python directory. Regards, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
