On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 8:04 AM <Mikko.Rapeli@...> wrote:

Hi,

On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 07:44:39PM +0100, Marek Belisko wrote:

Hi,

I'm using poky release thud and would like to bump python3 to 3.8.x. I
took recipe from most recent poky version but I'm hitting issue with
e.g. meson build like:
Log data follows:
| DEBUG: Executing shell function do_configure
| Traceback (most recent call last):
| File "setup.py", line 25, in <module>
| from setuptools import setup
| ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'setuptools'

Are there some other things I need to take care when want to bump python3?

When backporting changes, I find it better to cherry-pick the changes for e.g.
python3 update from master to the old branch that I have to use. In my case I can
not update anything which breaks ABIs on target images but can update all
development tools like python3. Often fixes and/or updates to components which
fail to build are also easy to find from master and cherry-pick, especially if you
don't need to build all recipes from poky but only a certain subset. Over
time this will make your local branch look horrible though, but at least
merges from stable branches will in most cases work, if they are still alive.

Thanks for sharing. But I'm using official poky release from git so I
cannot cherry pick changes.
Or you have clone of poky repo and add changes on top from newest versions?

But like Alex said, using 3.1 dunfell LTS or 3.2 gatesgarth would be better.

Yes but it's not an option for me to do it now ;).

Hope this helps,

-Mikko

Thanks,

Marek