On Thu, 2019-04-25 at 21:13 +0200, Miro Hrončok wrote:
On 25. 04. 19 20:33, Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Thu, 2019-04-25 at 19:33 +0200, Miro Hrončok wrote:
> > On 25. 04. 19 18:38, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> > > How much is going to be needed for "mock" to still work for
older
> > > operating systems?
> >
> > I'm confused. How is the change relevant for mock? I think I'm missing
some
> > pieces of the thought process here, could you please elaborate on that?
>
> mock defaults to setting up buildroots for older OSes with yum, from
> the containing OS' side. yum is python2-only. So a py2-less host OS
> can't build for older OSes, without some finagling. In fact currently
> mock _defaults_ to yum, even for newer OSes, so removing python2 breaks
> mock's default invocation.
yum was already removed from Fedora 31. So removal of python2 doesn't change
this, or does it?
I suppose removing python2 does not make it any _more_ broken, no.
- ajax