Updating the install_with_python.sh python version

[yaberger at ca.ibm.com]

XXX could be a ftp client with a response file


Yannick Bergeron
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From:   Ricky Nance <ricky.nance at gmail.com>
To:     Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org>, 
Cc:     yaberger at ca.ibm.com, Samba Technical 
<samba-technical at lists.samba.org>
Date:   05/24/2013 10:07 AM
Subject:        Re: Updating the install_with_python.sh python version



Andrew, it might not hurt to have a check, look in /tmp for the tarball, 
then use rsync (if available), if not, try wget, if not try XXX (not sure 
what solaris, freebsd, or any others have by default), if those fail, then 
error and tell the user to download the file manually to (say /tmp?) . 

Just a thought,
Ricky


On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org> 
wrote:
On Thu, 2013-05-23 at 09:33 -0500, Ricky Nance wrote:
> If you get too new of a version of python (3.0+), it can break thinks,
> this version is known to work with samba. I'd be willing to bet that
> 2.7.5 will cause things to break, but I haven't tested it myself (I
> want to say 2.7.3 worked, so I very well could be wrong about this).

Actually, 2.7.5 should be fine, I would be very supprised if it isn't.

We *do* actually need to update the version, as recent
Solaris/OpenIndiana versions break with the install_with_python.sh,
because they changed the way some network interface header worked, which
python compensated for in a more recent version.

What I've just not done is tested it, then uploaded the tarball to our
rsync server, then update the script.  It just needs to be done, and on
the platforms where this is an issue, python and the development headers
are a native package.  (Just make sure you install the math library
headers, which are missing from python as a package dep...).

Andrew Bartlett


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