On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 5:48 PM, Damjan Georgievski via arch-general < arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I use psycopg2 for postgres access in my pyramid web-app, and like most > > (all?) python developers all the dependencies are in a virtualenv, > > including psycopg2 itself. > > > > This means, of course, that the psycopg2 wheel is precompiled. > > > > With the recent glibc-2.26 update, I can no longer import psycopg2. This > is > > the error message I get on the file libresolv-2-c4c53def.5.so: > > > > symbol __res_maybe_init, version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file > > libc.so.6 with link time reference > > > > I'm not sure why the psycopg2 pip package bundles in libresolv (which is > > part of glibc in Arch, explaining why the Arch psycopg2 package works > fine, > > even without a recompile). Where's the right place for me to fix this? > With > > the psycopg2 pip maintainers or somewhere else? > > > why not just use the Arch package? I prefer that for pacakges that > link to system libraries. > Well, venvs are just cleaner (and I've tried venvs with some system libs, gets messy quickly). Also venvs allow easy freeze etc. which I need because my deployments are not on Arch machines (fortunately, they're still working).
