[Buildroot] [PATCH v2 1/1] qemu: add support for python3

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

+Hollis, Matt.

On Wed, 05 Sep 2018 20:47:08 +0300, Baruch Siach wrote:

> Adam Duskett writes:
> > How would I test this? I am used to having BuildRoot handle the paths
> > for such dependencies.  
> 
> Just send RFC patch that you tested on your host with whatever Python
> version you have installed. There are a number of participants in this
> list that have access to hosts running RHEL6 or its derivatives.

It would actually be useful if Hollis (or Matt ?) could provide a
Docker container to easily access a RHEL6.5 system, so that people can
try out what happens on such an old system. I guess RHEL6.5 itself is
not easy to access because it's only for Redhat customers, but perhaps
there is an equivalent version of CentOS that would do the job ?

https://hub.docker.com/_/centos/ has a CentOS 6.6 docker image, but not
CentOS 6.5. However, CentOS 6.6 also has Python 2.6 by default:

$ sudo docker run -i -t centos:6.6 /bin/bash
[...]
[root at f7e0f2f6d7af /]# python
Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Jan 22 2014, 09:42:36) 
[GCC 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-4)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> 

Best regards,

Thomas
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