Python Library Cleanups

Hal Murray hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Tue Sep 26 08:30:45 UTC 2017


> I will audit them, but dropping this in the day before release doesn't just
> seem like asking for trouble, it seems like screaming WE WANT TO EMBARRASS
> OURSELVES. 

Then put it on the known glitch list and fix it in 1.x


> And I would so regard it if this were ever required on Linux or FreeBSD. I
> have had no report of this.

It's required on Fedora.  I set it up ages ago.  I think that was the 
recommended way back then.  It worked.  Nobody raised the issue so I never 
removed it.  It kept on working.  (Or maybe the word did go out and I missed 
it.)



Fedora 26

[murray at hgm ~]$ printenv PYTHONPATH
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages
[murray at hgm ~]$ ntpq --version
ntpq ntpsec-0.9.7+1434 2017-09-24T02:08:48Z
[murray at hgm ~]$ unset PYTHONPATH
[murray at hgm ~]$ ntpq --version
ntpq: can't find Python NTP library -- check PYTHONPATH.
No module named ntp.control
[murray at hgm ~]$ 

I get the same on FreeBSD.


Should ntpq be able to print its version string without any libraries?


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