[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/refpolicy: needs python3

Antoine Tenart antoine.tenart at bootlin.com
Fri Jul 17 07:20:24 UTC 2020


Hello,

Quoting Thomas Petazzoni (2020-07-16 23:06:25)
> On Thu, 16 Jul 2020 22:59:39 +0200
> Fabrice Fontaine <fontaine.fabrice at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Commit 09b94b1e8f94d1f49f7a2349b4c8cbfecefa73da forgot to propagate
> > python3 dependency from host-setools to refpolicy
> > 
> > Fixes:
> >  - http://autobuild.buildroot.org/results/fdeaa54355aa0741eccc7864b034a7b07ef0c4bc
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Fabrice Fontaine <fontaine.fabrice at gmail.com>
> > ---
> >  package/refpolicy/Config.in | 4 ++++
> >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/package/refpolicy/Config.in b/package/refpolicy/Config.in
> > index b50b2f09ff..e374ab1901 100644
> > --- a/package/refpolicy/Config.in
> > +++ b/package/refpolicy/Config.in
> > @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
> >  config BR2_PACKAGE_REFPOLICY
> >       bool "refpolicy"
> > +     depends on BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON3 # host-setools
> 
> It is not possible for host-setools (a host package) to have a
> dependency on python3, which is a target package.
> 
> However, what is possible is that when BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON=y, the
> default host Python version is Python 2.x, and therefore host-setools
> gets installed for Python 2.x, but the refpolicy build uses
> host-python3, so it does not find host-setools.
> 
> I think the correct fix is instead to set
> HOST_SETOOLS_NEEDS_HOST_PYTHON = python3 since anyway it only works
> with Python 3.x.
> 
> Antoine: any thoughts on this ?

Your proposal seems reasonable.

Thanks!
Antoine

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Antoine Ténart, Bootlin
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