On Friday 31 January 2003 04:29 am, Trevor Rhodes wrote: > Would anyone happen to know if there will be support for gnome-python2 and > pygtk2 in Mandrake 9.1?
Well, before there are a raft of support questions for 9.1 perhaps this link should be posted... ftp://ftp.surfnet.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/Mandrake/Mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS.cooker Those are the rpms there now. If you care to build rpms for those, then go to the MandrakeLinux.com webpage and look under "Developers" on the left-hand side. xchat-python is there and pygnome 1.4.4 and pygtk-0.6.9 (four packages) and of course rpm-python. Now the versioning may not run the same so go up a level or two, grab the source(srpms), make a directory like this in your userspace ~/rpm ~/rpm/SOURCES ~/rpm/SPECS ~/rpm/BUILD ~rpm/RPMS ~/rpm/SRPMS and then just $ rpm -i pygtk-0.6.9-(whatever).src.rpm and then look in ~/rpm/SPECS with your favorite text editor handy (emacs color-codes the spec file nicely) and read the spec file for a description of what is actually covered. If you don't find what you want, you CAN make it happen. That is the beauty of linux. Go here: http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/howtos/mdk-rpm/ And you can use your own 9.0 system to prepare and submit srpms for your favorite software so others (like me) who also love python can share in the benefits and your name goes on the changelog. Submission instructions are here: http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/cookerdevel.php3 I hope that answers your question. I think you will find that with a few examples downloaded and disassembled by rpm installing them to your ~/rpm directory, that you can produce an rpm that will install and run nicely. Mandrake will rebuild it on their own compilation cluster(s), but it will be YOUR development contribution to MandrakeLinux. Likely the same SRPM will work for RH so you may want to post it somewhere as well where others can DL it. I think that is a great project, but I have other projects ahead of it so the chances I will do this one are slim and none. Civileme
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