[Piglit] [PATCH] Do we really need python 2.7?

[Vinson Lee]

On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 10:18 AM, Matěj Cepl <mcepl at cepl.eu> wrote:
> On 2015-01-26, 17:32 GMT, Dylan Baker wrote:
>> We use mako in two places. As Matt pointed out for generating tests, in
>> this capacity it's a build-time dependency. It's also used to generate
>> the pages for the HTML summary.
>>
>> I think you can sidestep the issue using pip,
>> pip install --user mako
>> will install a new copy of mako in your ~/.local directory, which should
>> be sufficient.
>
> I really cannot download anything to the Fedora builders, so
> this won't do. However, I think I can work around this. Either
> I will add more recent mako to EPEL 6 or I will pre-generate the
> tests.
>
> I can build piglit for RHEL-6
> (http://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/mcepl/piglit-el6/), but
> I am cheating with the most recent python-mako from Rawhide
> (python-mako-1.0.0-1) which doesn't exist for RHEL-6 (yet) and
> of course I am quite certain there are tons of broken code
> inside of the package (also we will most likely need more
> external packages backporting various python 2.7 functionality).
>
> I will investigate how does it work and I will report the
> results.
>
> Thanks so far,
>
> Matěj
>
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Can EPEL 7 Mako 0.7.3 be backported to EPEL 6? Mako 0.7.3 would
satisfy the piglit Mako requirement.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=784257
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/python-mako.git/commit/?h=epel7&id=b84857680f56070d9b01367975071a7c394bde0d