On Mon, 2018-03-05 at 12:19 +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > The homebrew formula's ignored Python PEP-0394 recommendations and > changed the plain python binary in /usr/local/bin to point to Python 3 > instead of Python 2. Python 2 is not even installed into a location that > is in $PATH by default anymore. The homebrew packages print a message > to stderr claiming to provide a way to fix this > > [quote] > This formula installs a python2 executable to /usr/local/opt/python@2/bin > > If you wish to have this formula's python executable in your PATH then add > > the following to ~/.bash_profile: > > export PATH="/usr/local/opt/python@2/libexec/bin:$PATH" > [/quote] > > When trying to update $PATH are suggested we find out this message is a > lie and /usr/local/opt/python@2 does not even exist, instead Python > seems to end up in /usr/local/Cellar/python@2/2.7.14_1 > > Rather than hardcoding this version specific directory in our travis > config, we change to run "brew link --force python@2", to make it create > symlinks in /usr/local/bin for the python2 binary. > > The original change triggering this problem was > > https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/24604#issue-171653084 > > There are countless bug reports against homebrew-core that are closed > without fixes, so it seems they are determined to ignore the Python > PEP 0394 recommendations on this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZh_ouQ8XEw&t=4s [...] > before_install: > - - if [ "$TRAVIS_OS_NAME" == "osx" ]; then brew update && brew upgrade && brew install rpcgen yajl xz; fi > + - if [ "$TRAVIS_OS_NAME" == "osx" ]; then brew update && brew upgrade && brew install rpcgen yajl xz && brew link --force python@2 ; fi Please drop the space between python@2 and the semicolon. With that fixed, and assuming you've already performed a successful test build on Travis, Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@xxxxxxxxxx> -- Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list