[ovs-dev] installing Python 2.7 on Xenserver (was: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Increase prerequisite from Python 2.4 to Python 2.7.)

Andy Hill hillad at gmail.com
Thu May 28 10:59:17 UTC 2015


I don't think it's too difficult, there just needs to be a well known
location where it's installed. It's unclear if we'll have to do the
installation or a newer version of Python will be available with a
XenServer update.

Specifically ovs-xapi-sync[1] will need an update to point to the new
python location if the system python isn't updated.

I've pointed Citrix to this mailing list thread.

[1] https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/blob/master/xenserver/usr_share_openvswitch_scripts_ovs-xapi-sync#L1

On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 12:53 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 07:23:49PM -0700, Andy Hill wrote:
>> > As a consequence, this requires dropping support for old versions of
>> > XenServer.  I don't expect that to be much of a problem.
>>
>> Unfortunately, the most recent release of XenServer (6.5) still ships
>> with Python 2.4.
>
> How hard is it to install a newer Python in parallel with the system
> version on XenServer?  I'd guess that RPMs are available.  It shouldn't
> be too much work to make OVS use "/usr/bin/python2.7" or whatever
> instead of "/usr/bin/python".



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