On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 11:05 PM, Sean Carolan <scaro...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> But, where did you get the idea that you could build Python RPMs using >> $python setup.py bdist_rpm ? I thought that was only limited to >> building RPMs for python packages (including extensions), but not the >> Python interpreter itself. Please correct me if i am wrong. > > > Ok, so it's only for module distributions? I assumed it could package > Python itself as well, because it creates a *.spec file that reads like > this: > > %define name Python > %define version 2.7.3 > %define unmangled_version 2.7.3 > %define release 1 > > Summary: A high-level object-oriented programming language
Hmm. Let's see, it was a guess on my part as well. > >> >> Okay, here is something for you to try in the meantime. Download the >> Python 2.7 SRPM (source RPM) from >> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=130. May be >> the F17 version. >> Extract it to get the source files, patches and the SPEC file. > > > Thank you, I will try this today. In the meantime I have started a thread > on the "distutils" mailing list, so as not to spam "Tutor" with my build > woes. I will follow the thread there and see what comes out of it. This is interesting! FWIW, I tried to get the SRPM and build Python 2.7 on RHEL 5. Quickly realized that it lacks, yum-builddep, yumdownloader, etc :-/ So, just left it there for then. I will have to try again the manual way. -Amit. -- http://amitsaha.github.com/ _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor