Bug 7059 - Upgrade python 2.x to 2.7.9
Summary: Upgrade python 2.x to 2.7.9
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: OE-Core
Classification: Build System, Metadata & Runtime
Component: core (show other bugs)
Version: 1.7
Hardware: All Multiple
: Medium enhancement
Target Milestone: 1.8 M3
Assignee: Alejandro Hernandez
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Reported: 2014-12-11 11:23 UTC by Paul Eggleton
Modified: 2015-03-02 18:48 UTC (History)
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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