Re: [RFC PATCH 9/9] iotests: use tests/venv for running tests

[John Snow]

On Mon, May 16, 2022 at 3:41 AM Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 5/14/22 17:55, John Snow wrote:
> > On Fri, May 13, 2022, 11:33 AM Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com
> > <mailto:pbonzini@redhat.com>> wrote:
> >     IIRC we have some cases (FreeBSD?) where only the python3.x executable
> >     is available.  This is why we 1) default to Meson's Python 3 if neither
> >     --meson nor --python are passed, and 2) use the shebang you mention but
> >     with *non-executable* files, which Meson treats magically as "invoke
> >     with the Python interpreter that was used to launch me".
> >
> > pkg install python3 on fbsd 13.0-R gives you /usr/bin/python3 fwiw. do
> > you know in what circumstances you get only a point release binary?
>
> Aha, tests/vm/freebsd installs python37, not python3.  But I guess it's
> still a plausible configuration for this packaging setup.
>

Just confirming here that if you do 'pkg install python37' and you
have no 'python3' link, the venv package will still make 'python' and
'python3' links. I think it's likely best to use the 'python3' one.