[LU-16242] Self-built lustre-client-dkms requires /usr/bin/python2

• Type: Question/Request
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Priority: Minor

Epic/Theme

build

• Assignee: WC Triage
• Reporter: Jesse Stroik

Description

RHEL 9 and its derivatives are no longer distributed with python 2. Two scripts specify python2 as their interpreter:
contrib/scripts/gerrit_checkpatch.py
lustre/scripts/zfsobj2fid
I did attempt to create the distribution with tests and i/o kit disabled, but the lustre-client-dkms RPM still required /usr/bin/python2.
I modified the interpreter to python3 for those scripts and tested. The RPM will no longer requires /usr/bin/python2 and can then be installed on rocky9.

#!/usr/bin/env python2

becomes:

#!/usr/bin/env python3

When I looked for previous issues related to this, it appeared that 'python' was changed to 'python2' for debian builds. I didn't test these scripts with python3.

Issue Links

• is related to: LU-16626 Don't use or check for python2 for lustre-zfs-dkms rpm
• is related to: LU-15874 RHEL 9.0 support