On Tue, 26 Jul 2022 at 12:45, Frank Ch. Eigler <f...@redhat.com> wrote: > > Hi - > > > CCing overseers and Frank. > > Can you please help me with that? > > > > Can please a maintainer install the package from pip? > > > Something like: > > > virtualenv /home/gcc/venv && /home/gcc/venv/bin/pip install Sphinx > > > or a similar location? > > The gccadmin team can do this kind of thing without overseer/root > privileges, or indeed so can any local shell-privileged user.
Yeah, I said I didn't want to install it that way without overseer approval, as pip won't keep the packages up to date the way dnf installations do. > (That said, rhel8 includes sphynx 1.7.6 - are you sure that's > not satisfactory?) That's a different package (full text search engine), what's needed here is python3-sphinx.
