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Diffstat (limited to 'debian/build_virtualenv')
| -rwxr-xr-x | debian/build_virtualenv | 15 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/debian/build_virtualenv b/debian/build_virtualenv index 83346c40f1..8b51b9e074 100755 --- a/debian/build_virtualenv +++ b/debian/build_virtualenv @@ -6,7 +6,16 @@ set -e export DH_VIRTUALENV_INSTALL_ROOT=/opt/venvs -SNAKE=/usr/bin/python3 + +# make sure that the virtualenv links to the specific version of python, by +# dereferencing the python3 symlink. +# +# Otherwise, if somebody tries to install (say) the stretch package on buster, +# they will get a confusing error about "No module named 'synapse'", because +# python won't look in the right directory. At least this way, the error will +# be a *bit* more obvious. +# +SNAKE=`readlink -e /usr/bin/python3` # try to set the CFLAGS so any compiled C extensions are compiled with the most # generic as possible x64 instructions, so that compiling it on a new Intel chip @@ -46,3 +55,7 @@ cp -r tests "$tmpdir" PYTHONPATH="$tmpdir" \ debian/matrix-synapse-py3/opt/venvs/matrix-synapse/bin/python \ -B -m twisted.trial --reporter=text -j2 tests + +# add a dependency on the right version of python to substvars. +PYPKG=`basename $SNAKE` +echo "synapse:pydepends=$PYPKG" >> debian/matrix-synapse-py3.substvars |