[virt-tools-list] [libvirt] ANNOUNCE: virt-manager 0.9.3

[Cole Robinson]

On 07/19/2012 03:54 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 07/19/2012 01:26 PM, Cole Robinson wrote:
>>>  #!/bin/sh
>>>  
>>> -exec /usr/bin/python "::PYTHONDIR::/::PACKAGE::.py" "$@"
>>> +exec python "::PYTHONDIR::/::PACKAGE::.py" "$@"
>>
>> One instance was missing, so I fixed that, added some more details, and pushed:
>>
>> http://git.fedorahosted.org/git?p=virt-manager.git;a=commit;h=30282a17091014ba5a96d20f4260df55779933c4
> 
>>
>> The change was originally made for unknown reasons: it was requested
>> through a RHEL bug that didn't have any justification and I just changed
>> it in ignorance:
>>
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=708181
>>
>>> How reproducible:
>> Always, if /usr/bin is removed off $PATH or if a different/custom Python release is placed on another directory and this directory preceeds /usr/bin in $PATH.
> 
> Actually, calling the first 'python' on PATH _is_ potentially
> problematic, if you mix more than one python stack on your system.  It
> may mean that we need a ./configure --with-python=/path/to/python, then
> install the tools with a hard-coded substitution to the absolute path
> passed at configure time instead of the use of env to run the first
> python on PATH.  But let's not worry about that unless someone actually
> complains that it broke their setup.
> 

Is that any different from /usr/bin/env python though, the change libvirt made?

- Cole