RE: Python-2.6.2 --with=db

2009-10-04 Thread Armin B. Resch
The advantage is that you this way can create your own independent distribution for your particular software stack. That's powerful, indeed, perhaps even more compelling when a considerable subset of packages are not hosted by OpenPKG such as closed-source, proprietary. No, we also patch

Re: Python-2.6.2 --with=db

2009-10-04 Thread Ralf S. Engelschall
On Sun, Oct 04, 2009, Armin B. Resch wrote: The advantage is that you this way can create your own independent distribution for your particular software stack. That's powerful, indeed, perhaps even more compelling when a considerable subset of packages are not hosted by OpenPKG such as

RE: Python-2.6.2 --with=db

2009-10-03 Thread Armin B. Resch
- From: openpkg-users-ow...@openpkg.org [mailto:openpkg-users- ow...@openpkg.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Johnson Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 12:02 PM To: openpkg-users@openpkg.org Subject: Re: Python-2.6.2 --with=db On Oct 1, 2009, at 12:15 PM, Bill Campbell wrote: On Thu, Oct 01, 2009

Re: Python-2.6.2 --with=db

2009-10-03 Thread Ralf S. Engelschall
On Sat, Oct 03, 2009, Armin B. Resch wrote: Thanks, guys, for your insights wrt the bsddb module which appears to be deprecated, possibly in part due to the pitfalls you described. I guess one way forward to ameliorate API ugliness was to abstract it behind a separate python package

Re: Python-2.6.2 --with=db

2009-10-03 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Oct 3, 2009, at 5:13 AM, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: On Sat, Oct 03, 2009, Armin B. Resch wrote: Thanks, guys, for your insights wrt the bsddb module which appears to be deprecated, possibly in part due to the pitfalls you described. I guess one way forward to ameliorate API ugliness

RE: Python-2.6.2 --with=db

2009-10-03 Thread Armin B. Resch
Hi Ralf, Thanks for that. Option 6 is not unlike the first one, then. Your suggestion is interesting, though. I do use the -r option against a local mirror, but would have dealt with situations like that by simply adding the offending package to an exclusion list on the build command (after

Re: Python-2.6.2 --with=db

2009-10-03 Thread Bill Campbell
On Sat, Oct 03, 2009, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: On Sat, Oct 03, 2009, Armin B. Resch wrote: Thanks, guys, for your insights wrt the bsddb module which appears to be deprecated, possibly in part due to the pitfalls you described. I guess one way forward to ameliorate API ugliness was to

Re: Python-2.6.2 --with=db

2009-10-03 Thread Ralf S. Engelschall
On Sat, Oct 03, 2009, Armin B. Resch wrote: Thanks for that. Option 6 is not unlike the first one, then. Your suggestion is interesting, though. I do use the -r option against a local mirror, but would have dealt with situations like that by simply adding the offending package to an exclusion

Python-2.6.2 --with=db

2009-10-01 Thread Armin B. Resch
Fellow OpenPKG-lers, My python build failed after the most recent db rebuild (db-4.8.24.0-20090920.src.rpm). After some googling, I came across this bug report + patch: http://bugs.python.org/issue6949 I appended the suggested patch to OpenPKG's python.patch and the build now works for me. Can

Re: Python-2.6.2 --with=db

2009-10-01 Thread Bill Campbell
On Thu, Oct 01, 2009, Armin B. Resch wrote: Fellow OpenPKG-lers, My python build failed after the most recent db rebuild (db-4.8.24.0-20090920.src.rpm). After some googling, I came across this bug report + patch: http://bugs.python.org/issue6949 I appended the suggested patch to OpenPKG's

Re: Python-2.6.2 --with=db

2009-10-01 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Oct 1, 2009, at 12:15 PM, Bill Campbell wrote: On Thu, Oct 01, 2009, Armin B. Resch wrote: Fellow OpenPKG-lers, My python build failed after the most recent db rebuild (db-4.8.24.0-20090920.src.rpm). After some googling, I came across this bug report + patch: