[oi-dev] [HEADS UP] IPS is Python 3-only now

[Alexander Pyhalov]

Hi.

Today large IPS update was merged. It delivered numerous upstream fixes and one big change.

IPS doesn't longer deliver Python 2.7 packages.

What does it mean for user? Possibly, not much, perhaps, just some UnicodeDecodeError issues ;)

One issue I've seen is that if you update pkg in GZ can be not able to update child images, so you'll have to update pkg in zones first.

What does it mean for developer?
1) You can't longer build Python 2.7 illumos-gate tools, so don't forget to add 
export BUILDPY2TOOLS="#"
to your illumos.sh

2) Older oi-userland tools will fail, please ensure your oi-userland has the following commit - 
https://github.com/OpenIndiana/oi-userland/commit/fb10babbcfd65ff74cf439bc77a2186fd79ee2a7

3) onbld tools SHOULD use Python 3.5 to work correctly (update to the latest package).



Best regards, 
Alexander Pyhalov, 
system administrator of Southern Federal University IT department