Re: [RFC PATCH v3 11/20] tests/vm: add py310-expat to NetBSD

[John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>]

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On Tue, Apr 25, 2023, 12:45 PM Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 24, 2023 at 04:02:39PM -0400, John Snow wrote:
> > NetBSD cannot successfully run "ensurepip" without access to the pyexpat
> > module, which NetBSD debundles. Like the Debian patch, it would be
> > strictly faster long term to install pip/setuptools, and I recommend
> > developers at their workstations take that approach instead.
>
> This sounds a bit like a NetBSD packaging bug surely ?  If we've got
> ensurepip installed and it doesn't work due to missing expat I would
> have though NetBSD should add a dependancy.
>

Yes, I agree - though I think NetBSD doesn't unbundle ensurepip, so there
might be nothing to add a dependency against ... and I assume they split
out pyexpat for a reason.

I can report it, anyway. It should at least fail more gracefully than it
does.


> None the less, we'll need a fix in QEMU until that's addressed.
>
> >
> > For the purposes of a throwaway VM, there's not really a speed
> > difference for who is responsible for installing pip; us (needs
> > py310-pip) or Python (needs py310-expat).
> >
> > Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  tests/vm/netbsd | 1 +
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
>
> With regards,
> Daniel
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