On 31 July 2017 at 05:19, Björn Persson <Bjorn@rombobjörn.se> wrote:
> Mathieu Bridon <boche...@daitauha.fr> wrote:
>> On Mon, 2017-07-31 at 00:02 +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>> > So that's effectively a hard design constraint for me: folks
>> > targeting EL6 and EL7 *are* going to have to use "/usr/bin/python" in
>> > their shebang lines (since they can't even assume "/usr/bin/python2"
>> > will be present,
>>
>> Wait, what?
>>
>> I see /usr/bin/python2 in the EL7 spec file:
>>
>> https://git.centos.org/blob/rpms!python.git/c7/SPECS!python.spec#L2041
>>
>> I'm pretty sure I had /usr/bin/python2 back in the days when I was
>> using EL6. (but I have no way to check that now)
>
> I just checked:
>
> $ cat /etc/redhat-release
> CentOS release 6.9 (Final)
> $ ll /usr/bin/python*
> -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4864 18 aug  2016 /usr/bin/python
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    6 25 aug  2016 /usr/bin/python2 -> python
> -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4864 18 aug  2016 /usr/bin/python2.6
> $ rpm -q --file /usr/bin/python*
> python-2.6.6-66.el6_8.x86_64
> python-2.6.6-66.el6_8.x86_64
> python-2.6.6-66.el6_8.x86_64
>
> Unless this is different in RHEL than in CentOS I don't see
> how /usr/bin/python2 could be missing if /usr/bin/python is present.

Yeah, I was just straight up wrong on that front - while we only added
this as far back as 2.7 upstream, it looks like Red Hat took care of
backporting the addition to both EL5 & EL6. So mea culpa for failing
to double check how portable explicit python2 references actually were
- that part of my post can be dismissed as being based on a faulty
assumption.

Cheers,
Nick.

-- 
Nick Coghlan   |   ncogh...@gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia
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