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python3.9 cannot be installed system wide #310302

Open symphorien opened 4 months ago

symphorien commented 4 months ago

Describe the bug

adding python39 in environment.systemPackages makes nixos-rebuild fail, because python39.doc fails to build and documentation.doc.enable defaults to true.

Steps To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. add python39 to environment.systemPackages
  2. nixos-rebuild

Expected behavior

no build failure

Additional context

can also be reproduced as nix-build -A python39.doc A regression introduced in https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/230533

Notify maintainers

cc @KAction @FRidh involved in the creation of the build output https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/230533

Metadata

reproduced on 27c13997bf450a01219899f5a83bd6ffbfc70d3c (23.11) and 2f181d6f062e6bd0b794e7978a1ec56188be95bb (the commit introducing this doc output)

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eclairevoyant commented 4 months ago
symphorien commented 4 months ago

python doesn't go in systemPackages anyway, this is why we have mkShell and/or actual python builders in the first place

that seems a bit extreme. I use python as a calculator, and I want it on path.

python39.doc builds just fine on master

can we get a backport of the fix then?