nothing provides /bin/python needed by mercurial-3.5-1.fc23.x86_64

[Neal Becker]

I'm stuck on this (again).  According to advice here:

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2015-June/211666.html

I just needed to use
Requires: /usr/bin/python

But I tried changing 

Requires: python

to 

Requires: /usr/bin/python

and it doesn't work.  Somehow I still get:
...
Requires: /bin/python /usr/bin/env libc.so.6()(64bit) libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.14)
(64bit) libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2.5)(64bit) libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3.4)(64bit) 
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.4)(64bit) libpthread.so.0()(64bit) 
libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.2.5)(64bit) libpython2.7.so.1.0()(64bit) python(abi) 
= 2.7 rtld(GNU_HASH)

I don't know where this is coming from or how to fix it.

[Michael Schwendt]

On Wed, 12 Aug 2015 08:33:19 -0400, Neal Becker wrote:

>  I'm stuck on this (again).  According to advice here:
>  
>  https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2015-June/211666.html
>  
>  I just needed to use
>  Requires: /usr/bin/python
>  
>  But I tried changing 
>  
>  Requires: python
>  
>  to 
>  
>  Requires: /usr/bin/python
>  
>  and it doesn't work.  Somehow I still get:
>  ...
>  Requires: /bin/python /usr/bin/env libc.so.6()(64bit) libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.14)
>  (64bit) libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2.5)(64bit) libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3.4)(64bit) 
>  libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.4)(64bit) libpthread.so.0()(64bit) 
>  libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.2.5)(64bit) libpython2.7.so.1.0()(64bit) python(abi) 
>  = 2.7 rtld(GNU_HASH)
>  
>  I don't know where this is coming from or how to fix it. 
That's the output from rpmbuild's dependency generator.
Examine all files in the buildroot.
The automatic dep on /usr/bin/env can also be problematic.

[Michael Mraka]

Neal Becker wrote:
% I'm stuck on this (again).  According to advice here:
% 
% https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2015-June/211666.html
% 
% I just needed to use
% Requires: /usr/bin/python
% 
% But I tried changing 
% 
% Requires: python
% 
% to 
% 
% Requires: /usr/bin/python
% 
% and it doesn't work.  Somehow I still get:
% ...
% Requires: /bin/python /usr/bin/env libc.so.6()(64bit) libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.14)
% (64bit) libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2.5)(64bit) libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3.4)(64bit) 
% libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.4)(64bit) libpthread.so.0()(64bit) 
% libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.2.5)(64bit) libpython2.7.so.1.0()(64bit) python(abi) 
% = 2.7 rtld(GNU_HASH)
% 
% I don't know where this is coming from or how to fix it.

Hi Neal,

It looks like an autogenerated provide. I guess there's a script
starting with '#!/usr/bin/env python' and /bin is before /usr/bin in your PATH.
In this case either replacing '#!/usr/bin/env python' with
'#!/usr/bin/python'
or fixing PATH should help.

Regards,

--
Michael Mráka
Software Management Engineering, Red Hat

[Reindl Harald]

Am 12.08.2015 um 14:33 schrieb Neal Becker:
>  I'm stuck on this (again).  According to advice here:
>
>  https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2015-June/211666.html
>
>  I just needed to use
>  Requires: /usr/bin/python
>
>  But I tried changing
>
>  Requires: python
>
>  to
>
>  Requires: /usr/bin/python
>
>  and it doesn't work.  Somehow I still get:
>  ...
>  Requires: /bin/python /usr/bin/env libc.so.6()(64bit) libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.14) 
there are still places where /bin and /sbin is in PATH and there are 
still packages like glibc which provides on /sbin/ldconfig

on dist-upgrades this makes always troubles when self built packages are 
using the correct /usr/sbin/ldconfig, hence i rolled out a blank 
meta-package with Provides

frankly after that long time UsrMove happened these fragments should be 
completly removed all over the distribution and features *finished*

there was even a package guideline mandating that which was removed for 
hard to understandable reasons

Provides:  %{_bindir}/perl
Provides:  %{_sbindir}/ldconfig

[Bohuslav Kabrda]

----- Original Message -----
>  I'm stuck on this (again).  According to advice here:
>  
>  https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2015-June/211666.html
>  
>  I just needed to use
>  Requires: /usr/bin/python
>  
>  But I tried changing
>  
>  Requires: python
>  
>  to
>  
>  Requires: /usr/bin/python
>  
>  and it doesn't work.  Somehow I still get:
>  ...
>  Requires: /bin/python /usr/bin/env libc.so.6()(64bit) libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.14)
>  (64bit) libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2.5)(64bit) libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3.4)(64bit)
>  libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.4)(64bit) libpthread.so.0()(64bit)
>  libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.2.5)(64bit) libpython2.7.so.1.0()(64bit) python(abi)
>  = 2.7 rtld(GNU_HASH)
>  
>  I don't know where this is coming from or how to fix it. 
Have you checked hashbangs? RPM will automatically generate file-based requires for
#!/bin/python, if such a hashbang is in any of the packaged files. I guess the proper way
to fix this error would be to replace that with #!/usr/bin/python2.

-- 
Regards,
Slavek Kabrda