Re: three questions: f24 branch, python3 default, where to put /etc/rsyslog.d/gluster.conf.example

[Dave Johansen]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 8:02 AM, Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh(a)redhat.com&gt;
wrote:

>  On 02/24/2016 09:58 AM, Kaleb S. KEITHLEY wrote:
>
> > On 02/24/2016 09:45 AM, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> >
> >> On 02/24/2016 09:30 AM, Peter Robinson wrote:
> >>
> >>> 1) usually after the branch I build new packages for rawhide (i.e.
> >>>> $branch+1). But atm in the master branch, a `fedpkg build` gives me
> >>>>
> >>>>       Could not execute build: Package glusterfs-3.7.8-1.fc24 has
> >>>> already
> >>>> been built
> >>>>
> >>>> Am I just too early? Or is there something missing that's preventing
> >>>> builds for f25.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> The branching is ongoing, there was infrastructure issues last night
> >>> so it's taken a bit longer than planned.
> >>>
> >>> 2) Despite several articles out in the wild claiming that {F22,F23,F24}
> >>>> will switch to Python3 as the default, [1] would seem to indicate that
> >>>> the only thing we're going to see is 1) the update of Python3 from
> 3.4
> >>>> to 3.5, and 2) Python3 system-python and system-python-libs will be
> >>>> split out; however the default python will remain Python2.
> >>>>
> >>>> Is that correct?
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Not really, py3 is the default by means of being the only python
> >>> shipped in a number of Fedora deliverables but there's also some that
> >>> can't move directly to pure python3 yet due to other issues (like
> >>> ansible only bein py2 at the moment). So it's a "it depends"
> answer.
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> To supplement this, it's the default in the sense that packagers are
> >> expected to ship python3 packages if they are supported upstream and if
> >> the package includes the same binary executable name for py2 and py3,
> >> only the py3 package should ship it.
> >>
> >
> > I guess I don't really grok what that means. And/or I didn't frame my
> > question very well.
> >
> > I installed a fresh rawhide Fedora/Server two days ago.
> >
> > It has both python-2.7.11-4.fc24.x86_64 and python3-3.5.1-4.fc24.x86_64.
> >
>
>  Yeah, this is because the Samba and FreeIPA packages didn't quite finish
>  their python 3 conversion in time. By F25, we should be able to avoid
>  shipping python 2 in the default installation of Fedora Server.
>
>
>    /usr/bin/python is a symlink to python2.
> >
> > Under what circumstances will /usr/bin/python be Python3?
> >
>
>  Under no circumstances whatsoever :)
>
>  "Python 3 by default" != /usr/bin/python -> /usr/bin/python3
>  
At one point it did mean that (
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Python_3_as_Default ) but the
decision for that to not be the case has not really been communicated well.
The original questions was just trying to clarify that the change for
"/usr/bin/python to continue linking to /usr/bin/python2" was Fedora's
current position.