Bug 7059

Summary: Upgrade python 2.x to 2.7.9
Product: [Build System, Metadata & Runtime] OE-Core Reporter: Paul Eggleton <bluelightning>
Component: coreAssignee: Alejandro Hernandez <alejandro.hernandez>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: Medium CC: doug.geiger, meta.mr.watcher, meta.watcher, richard.purdie, sona.sarmadi
Version: 1.7   
Target Milestone: 1.8 M3   
Hardware: All   
OS: Multiple   
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto: --- Type of Regression: ---
Verified: Documentation change: No (bug/feature does not impact docs)

Description Paul Eggleton 2014-12-11 11:23:42 UTC 
We're a bit behind on our python 2.x recipe, and 2.7.9 has just been released. It significantly improves SSL certificate handling in a number of different ways. For details see the announcement:

https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-279/

Quite a lot has changed in terms of how it is built since 2.7.3 which we have currently; for example upstream has added cross-compilation support but they have done it in a slightly different manner than we were patching in. I did start an upgrade to 2.7.6 a while ago which I didn't manage to finish, but it should hopefully give a head start on the upgrade - the branch can be found here (just the top commit):

http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=paule/python276-wip