Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 2/2] oeqa/utils/postactions: transfer whole archive over ssh instead of doing individual copies

["Alexis Lothoré" <alexis.lothore@bootlin.com>]

On 7/8/24 23:37, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Mon, 2024-07-08 at 23:10 +0200, Alexis Lothoré wrote:
>> Hello Richard,

[...]

>> My best guess about those differences is a mismatch on python versions between
>> the autobuilder and my machine. I am running python 3.12, and it appears that it
>> has brought many improvements to python f-strings, especially "quote reuse",
>> which makes python not raise an exception anymore when the expression inside an
>> f-string reuses the same kind of quotes as for the parent f-string (see [1]). I
>> ran a quick test with Python 3.11 instead of 3.12, and I now I see the exception.
> 
> That explains things. I'm very surprised any version of python accepts
> that formatting to be honest!
> 
>> I guess it would be better for me to keep working with the same python version
>> as in the autobuilder. I see mentions of python 3.6 in README-WALKTHROUGHS.md
>> from the autobuilder2 repository, but I am not sure how up-to-date it is. Could
>> you please confirm whether this is the correct version or not?
> 
> The docs are out of date and the definitive version is the one checked in bitbake:
> 
> https://git.openembedded.org/bitbake/tree/lib/bb/__init__.py#n15
> 
> "Sorry, python 3.8.0 or later is required for this version of bitbake"
> 
> so 3.8+ is our current requirement.

ACK, I'll then align with this version for any future development.

Thanks,

Alexis

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