Bugs item #1495488, was opened at 2006-05-26 14:19 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by loewis You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1495488&group_id=5470
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: Build Group: Python 2.5 Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Tim Heaney (theaney) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: make altinstall installs pydoc Initial Comment: I did the "make altinstall" rather than the "make install" as suggested on http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.5/ This worked great, creating a /usr/local/bin/python2.5 which doesn't clash with my /usr/bin/python. However, it also created a /usr/local/bin/pydoc which did clash with my /usr/bin/pydoc. I just removed it and all is well. Should altinstall not create pydoc? It could create pydoc2.5 rather than pydoc, but then the shebang line would have to be changed to python2.5. What about smtpd.py, idle, and python-config, which were also created by altinstall? They don't currently conflict with anything I have for Python 2.4, but the potential is there for the same problem. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) Date: 2006-06-04 22:02 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=21627 You are right: altinstall shouldn't overwrite these conflicting files. For idle and pydoc, I would think that altinstall should install version-specific copies - users actually might want to run an idle or pydoc associated with a specific version, likewise for python-config. I'm uncertain why smtpd.py is installed at all. Would you be willing to work on a patch? You are right that the shebang line should get updated during the installation, too. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1495488&group_id=5470 _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
