Gerry Reno wrote: > Dr. Volker Jaenisch wrote: > >> Hi IPVS People! >> >> ipvsman is a realtime GUI for the ipvs linux loadbalancer. >> >> http://sourceforge.net/projects/ipvsman >> >> ipvsman was developed on the debian plattform. >> Now I get several errors from not debian distributions >> >> Please report any installation error at once to >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> any help on packaging is welcome >> >> Best Regards, >> >> Volker >> >> >> >> > Volker, > Ok, the problem in building RPM's using the bdist_rpm target is that > there is a version mangling problem in bdist_rpm.py in python itself. > The bug is # 1360200, > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1360200&group_id=5470&atid=305470 > > . I'm running the latest Fedora (F7) and the python rpm version is > 2.5-12.fc7. The fix is supposed to be coming in python 2.6. Now if you > go look at the bug you will see the patch that fixes the problem. So > anyone that wants to compile python from source should be able to patch it. > > Regards, > Gerry > > > Volker, Well, here's a bit of bad news: The 2.6 release of python is not even scheduled until *April 2008* !
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0361/ So it might be worth talking with the python folks and seeing if they would backport the bdist_rpm patch back into python 2.5. Gerry _______________________________________________ LinuxVirtualServer.org mailing list - lvs-users@LinuxVirtualServer.org Send requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or go to http://lists.graemef.net/mailman/listinfo/lvs-users
