Re: [gentoo-user] Stable Python package changes USE flags with ~amd64

[Franz Fellner]

And what if you change the line to "dev-python/olefile amd64"?

Am Di., 7. Jan. 2020 um 17:10 Uhr schrieb Mickaël Bucas <mbucas@×××××.com>:

> Hi Franz
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> However your assumption is incorrect: these two commands are run on the
> same machine, with only the keyword on "olefile" changed.
> Thinking a bit more about it, Python 3.7 isn't stable yet, so I also have
> "=dev-lang/python-3.7* ~amd64" in package.accept_keyword.
>
> I've been able to reproduce this behavior in a chroot based on stage 3
> with the minimum packages installed.
> I have in make.conf
> PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_6 python3_7"
> In /var/lib/portage/world
> dev-lang/python:3.7
> dev-python/olefile
> In /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords
> dev-python/olefile ~amd64
> =dev-lang/python-3.7* ~amd64
> dev-python/setuptools ~amd64
> dev-python/certifi ~amd64
>
> And emerge says :
> # emerge -pv1 olefile
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild   R    ] dev-python/olefile-0.46::gentoo  USE="-doc"
> PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_6 python3_7 -pypy3 -python3_8" 0 KiB
> Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 KiB
>
> When I remove " dev-python/olefile ~amd64", Python 3.7 would be disabled :
> # emerge -pv1 olefile
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild   R    ] dev-python/olefile-0.46::gentoo  USE="-doc"
> PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_6 (-pypy3) (-python3_7*) (-python3_8)" 0
> KiB
> Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 KiB
>
> This is still puzzling me, but one interpretation may be :
> I you enable the unstable ~amd64 keyword on a package, the stable version
> of said package is allowed to run on the unstable version of the Python
> interpreter.
>
> This seems to be the intended behavior, as I found that at least 40 Python
> packages on each of my 2 systems are stable and have Python 3.7 enabled (I
> keyworded all of them sometime in the past...)
>
> Thanks
> Best regards
> Mickaël Bucas
>
> Le mar. 7 janv. 2020 à 08:08, Franz Fellner <alpine.art.de@×××××.com> a
> écrit :
>
>> I assume those emerge commands weren't done on one machine but come from
>> those two different machines.
>> This change in USE Flags can't come from that line in
>> package.accept_keywords.
>> This is a change in PYTHON_TARGETS in make.conf, package.use or
>> package.env.
>> Carefully go through those config files/directories, I am sure you will
>> find the offending line.
>>
>> Regards
>> Franz
>>
>> Am Fr., 3. Jan. 2020 um 11:44 Uhr schrieb Mickaël Bucas <mbucas@×××××.com
>> >:
>>
>>> Hello
>>>
>>> For some time I've been wondering why I had a difference on
>>> dev-python/olefile-0.46 between 2 machines : one was installed with
>>> python_targets_python3_7, the other wasn't.
>>> And I finally pinpointed it to package.accept_keywords containing
>>> "dev-python/olefile ~amd64" on one of the machines only
>>>
>>> At the time of writing, dev-python/olefile-0.46 is the stable version,
>>> and KEYWORDS contains "amd64" (no tilde) among others.
>>>
>>> When package.accept_keywords doesn't contain "dev-python/olefile
>>> ~amd64", I get :
>>>     emerge -pv1 --verbose-conflicts olefile
>>>     These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>>>     Calculating dependencies... done!
>>>     [ebuild   R    ] dev-python/olefile-0.46::gentoo  USE="-doc"
>>> PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_6 (-pypy3) (-python3_7) (-python3_8)" 0
>>> KiB
>>>     Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 KiB
>>>
>>> => Python 3.7 is disabled
>>>
>>> When package.accept_keywords contains "dev-python/olefile ~amd64", I get
>>> :
>>>     emerge -pv1 olefile
>>>     These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>>>     Calculating dependencies... done!
>>>     [ebuild   R    ] dev-python/olefile-0.46::gentoo  USE="-doc"
>>> PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_6 python3_7* -pypy3 -python3_8" 0 KiB
>>>     Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 KiB
>>>
>>> => Python 3.7 is enabled
>>>
>>> It seems really really strange to me for the same version of a stable
>>> package to be "influenced" by keywording.
>>> Is it a bug or a feature ?
>>> Did I do something wrong ?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Best regards
>>> Mickaël Bucas
>>>
>>