On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 1:09 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III <ti...@math.uh.edu>
wrote:
> >>>>> "DJ" == Dave Johansen <davejohan...@gmail.com> writes:
>
> DJ> Is there anything that could be done in EPEL to make the Python 3
> DJ> macros be usable without requiring %{python3_pkgversion}?
>
> Well, there has been some on and off work focused on making python
> packaging less hideous. A spec would look sort of like this:
>
> https://pagure.io/python-macros/blob/master/f/test1.spec
>
> And I think that would work down into EPEL.
>
Good to hear that progress is being made.
> But otherwise, there's not much we can do about that _pkgversion macro,
> since EPEL may even get multiple python versions at some point. The
> fancy macros actually handle that, but they aren't really a thing you
> could use right now.
>
For the time being, could the python34 package add a Provides for python3
so the _pkgversion macro isn't necessary?
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