About zope and plone

[Ruslan Mahmatkhanov]

Martin Wilke wrote on 29.10.2011 04:37:
> On Wed Oct 19 10:57:41 2011, wen heping wrote:
>> Yes, I agree with this PR that we should add -N to easy_install's
>> deinstall argument.
>>
>> And shall we ask for a exp-run to test it ?
>>
>> wen
>>
>> 2011/10/19 Ruslan Mahmatkhanov<cvs-src at yandex.ru>:
>>> Good day, gentlemen.
>>>
>>> Please tell what do you think about message bellow and this pr:
>>> http://bugs.freebsd.org/159962
>>>
>>> Message bellow is somewhat complements this pr. Please also note that
>>> Wen
>>> agree with this pr, but he is busy for this right now. Also note that
>>> this
>>> pr is a stopper wrt importing of new zope and plone.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>> -------- Исходное сообщение --------
>>> Тема: Re: About zope and plone
>>> Дата: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 23:03:41 +0400
>>> От: Ruslan Mahmatkhanov<cvs-src at yandex.ru>
>>> Кому: wen heping<wenheping at gmail.com>
>>>
>>> wen heping wrote on 14.10.2011 13:15:
>>>
>>>> Today I tested devel/py-zope.minmax in Tinderbox, it has the same plist
>>>> error.
>>>> Now I need such a port exist in current FreeBSD portstree to be a demo
>>>> to python at .
>>>>
>>>> If python@ does not disagree I would ask portmgr@ for an exprun to test
>>>> it.
>>>> Then I would commit it.
>>>
>>> Hi Wen,
>>>
>>> i'm finally get it.
>>> While seeking an example for you i took some broken/outdated ports,
>>> that i
>>> just can't left in this state :), so i apologize for delay.
>>>
>>> You was right, it's a kind of upstream problem, but bsd.python.mk still
>>> contains a problem too, because this error still exists on deinstall of
>>> such silly ports (that may potentially exist in future).
>>>
>>> Here is how to reproduce:
>>> Pick any port, that
>>> a) using setuptools for installing
>>> b) has non-empty install_requires[] list in it's setup.py
>>> c) does not define BUILD or RUN DEPENDS for deps, that are listed
>>> in it's setup.py
>>>
>>> Ok, i wasn't able to find such port in the tree. But you can take, say,
>>> devel/py-daemon, remove BUILD/RUN_DEPENDS in it's Makefile and try to
>>> build it in tinderbox - it will builds and installs fine, but you'll get
>>> extra files installed on deinstall.
>>>
>>> The only port, that looked promising, was devel/py-Jinja. It defines
>>> this lines:
>>>
>>> PYEASYINSTALL_INSTALLARGS= -N ${PYTHON_SITELIBDIR}/${PYEASYINSTALL_EGG}
>>> PYEASYINSTALL_UNINSTALLARGS= -q -m -N
>>> ${PYTHON_SITELIBDIR}/${PYEASYINSTALL_EGG}
>>>
>>> Note adding the -N key on deinstall. But right now they are not needed,
>>> because this port packages successfully without them (it has empty
>>> install_requires[]).
>>>
>>> The problem with Products.MailHost, for example, is that if i add zope
>>> as dependency of this port, we well have cyclic deps and broken build.
>>> Resolving this issue with upstream will take much time (i know this
>>> because i already have 3 patches that hanging in zope/plone bugtrackers
>>> more than month).
>>>
>>> I can avoid this a different way, by defining
>>> PYEASYINSTALL_UNINSTALLARGS, but i believe that more correct and more
>>> easy is to define this -N in bsd.python.mk, because it's just two bytes
>>> in one file - and this is all, problem solved. Otherwise, i will be
>>> forced to patch many ports with this UNINSTALLARGS line, effectively
>>> littering the tree and making it hard to maintain. We already have it in
>>> PYEASYINSTALL_INSTALLARGS for some reason anyway, so why to not
>>> define it in
>>> UNINSTALLARGS too for symmetry?
>>>
>>> I hope this arguments are sufficient to convince portmgr@ and make this
>>> change.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Regards,
>>> Ruslan
>>>
>>> Tinderboxing kills... the drives.
>>>
>
> Hi,
>
> Just a question, all these is still based on python 2.4 right? Because
> of security reason we should remove python 2.4 after 9.0 release. I'm
> back to the game now and will force that removal.
> Please let me know whats about that.
>
> - Martin
>

Hi, Martin.

No, of course. The whole point is to import zope/plone versions that 
work with 2.6/2.7, and to drop obsoleted 2.4-only versions along with 
python 2.4 an 2.5.

-- 
Regards,
Ruslan

Tinderboxing kills... the drives.