From: "Nick Coghlan" <ncoghlan(a)redhat.com>
To: python-devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
Sent: Thursday, August 7, 2014 10:00:51 AM
Subject: Re: Python 2.7 SSL upgrade patch available for testing
On 07/30/2014 12:16 AM, Bohuslav Kabrda wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> PEP 466 approved bring the core Python 2 network security infrastructure
>> up to speed with the modern internet.
>>
>> Alex Gaynor has provided a draft patch of the most complex part of that
>> PEP, backporting the bulk of the Python 3.4 SSL module to Python 2.7:
>>
http://bugs.python.org/issue21308#msg223895
>>
>> This is also the part of the PEP most likely to break things, so
>> figuring out a way to test it in Fedora before it makes it into an
>> upstream CPython release would be a good idea...
>
> We could create a copr repo where we would rebuild python (in an SCL?) with
> these patches and then we'd rebuild some modules that use ssl - to see if
> the tests pass and if they're actually usable. The disadvantage of this
> approach is that it just takes lots of time to implement...
> Or, if we're feeling lucky, we can just build Python with these patches in
> rawhide and see if something breaks :) That's easy and fast (assuming
> everything works fine).
>
> I'd really love to help here, but I really can't spare enough time to do it
> "properly" in Copr as noted above.
> So the question is, are we feeling lucky? :) I'd say yes, since rawhide has
> just recently become future Fedora 22 and not much is going on in there
> right now. If we break something, we can just revert it quickly and
> everything will be fine.
>
> Is someone strictly against this or shall I move on with patching our
> rawhide Python?
Patching rawhide would be wonderful. The patch is at last passing
Python's own test suite, so it shouldn't have broken anything too
dramatically.
Cheers,
Nick.
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Hi everyone,
I am willing to work on this starting next week (atm I am at flock),
I will test it along with some ssl dependent packages.
Regards,
Robert Kuska
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