Re: [Qemu-devel] Python 2 in tests/vm (was Re: [PULL 0/8] Python queue, 2019-06-07)

[Eduardo Habkost]

On Mon, Jul 01, 2019 at 07:25:27PM -0300, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 01:58:50PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > On Fri, 7 Jun 2019 at 22:16, Eduardo Habkost <address@hidden> wrote:
> > >
> > > The following changes since commit 
> > > 185b7ccc11354cbd69b6d53bf8d831dd964f6c88:
> > >
> > >   Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/cohuck/tags/s390x-20190607-2' 
> > > into staging (2019-06-07 15:24:13 +0100)
> > >
> > > are available in the Git repository at:
> > >
> > >   git://github.com/ehabkost/qemu.git tags/python-next-pull-request
> > >
> > > for you to fetch changes up to 8297719709f1339506d6da93ec69e6118ace8676:
> > >
> > >   travis: Make check-acceptance job more verbose (2019-06-07 18:11:02 
> > > -0300)
> > >
> > > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > > Python queue, 2019-06-07
> > >
> > > * New boot_linux_console test cases (Philippe Mathieu-Daudé)
> > > * Deprecate Python 2 support (Eduardo Habkost)
> > > * Require python3 >= 3.5 (Eduardo Habkost)
> > > * Make check-acceptance Travis job more verbose (Eduardo Habkost)
> > >
> > > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > Hi. This fails to build on one of my buildtest machines:
> > 
> > ERROR: Cannot use 'python3', Python 2 >= 2.7 or Python 3 >= 3.5 is required.
> >        Use --python=/path/to/python to specify a supported Python.
> > 
> > The machine has python 2.7.6 and 3.4.3. (It's an Ubuntu trusty
> > box; it's one of the gcc compile farm machines so upgrades to its
> > OS are not really under my control.)
> > 
> > The configure check also spits out deprecation warnings for
> > the NetBSD/FreeBSD/OpenBSD tests/vm configurations. It would be nice
> > to get those updated.
> 
> CCing the test/vm maintainers.
> 
> Fam, Alex, are you able to fix this and create new BSD VM images
> with Python 3 available?  I thought the VM image configurations
> were stored in the source tree, but they are downloaded from
> download.patchew.org.

Fam, Alex, can you help us on this?  Python 2 won't be supported
anymore, so we need the VM images to be updated.

-- 
Eduardo