In article <cahk3fnzr1-j6wnepnbjjeb32bjd0ubezvydqnzwwe_daczw...@mail.gmail.com>, George Georgalis <geo...@galis.org> wrote:
> I posted this yesterday to compiler-sig, but I'm not sure there is any > traffic there? > > There is a rather complex spec file for making rpm of python > interpreter, but I'm only seeing doc on making rpm packages (ie > programs); and, the spec file has difficult errors. > > Is anyone interested in the spec file issues, or maybe I should just > make a simple one from it? I'm not sure why that spec file is still there. From the hg log for the spec file, it appears that it gets updated "automatically" at each release, likely by a script used by the release managers. But I'd be pretty surprised to find that anyone uses the spec files as released. The Python release process no longer produces RPMs (it looks like it did at some point in the distant past) so it would only be used downstream by third-party distributors who do but I'm guessing they have their own, more complex spec files that they maintain themselves. You might want to open an issue on the bug tracker (bugs.python.org) or ask on the python-dev mailing list. -- Ned Deily, n...@acm.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
