ANNOUNCE: 2.1b1 SRPM

[Sean Reifschneider]

I've finally gotten the 2.1b1 SRPM built.  Sorry for the delay.

The SRPM is available at:

   ftp.tummy.com:/pub/tummy/RPMS/SRPMS

You will also need the "expat-1.1-3tummy.src.rpm" SRPM (available in the same
location) to build the binary above (it prevents a conflict with the
w2c-libwww-devel RPM).

By default, it builds a binary named "python2.1" -- this can be changed by
commenting out the "2.1" line at the very top of the spec file.  To build
a binary RPM from the SRPM above, do (for example):

   rpm --rebuild expat-1.1-3tummy.src.rpm
   rpm -i /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/expat-1.1-3tummy.i386.rpm
   rpm --rebuild python-2.1b1-1tummy.src.rpm
   rpm -i /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/python-2.1a1-tummy.i386.rpm
   rpm -i /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/python-tkinter-2.1a1-tummy.i386.rpm
   rpm -i /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/python-devel-2.1a1-tummy.i386.rpm

These commands will build binary RPMs tailored exactly to your system
(hopefully avoiding problems with 6.2 and 7.0 differences).

Note that these SRPMs are in RPM v4 format.  If you are running RedHat 6.2
or older without the errata applied (shame on you), you'll need to upgrade
to install version 3.0.5 of RPM, available at:

   ftp.valinux.com:/pub/mirrors/redhat/redhat/updates/6.2/i386

as:

   rpm-3.0.5-9.6x.i386.rpm
   rpm-build-3.0.5-9.6x.i386.rpm
   rpm-devel-3.0.5-9.6x.i386.rpm
   rpm-python-3.0.5-9.6x.i386.rpm

If you have any problems with the SRPM, let me know.  Hopefully it will
allow you to more easily test Python 2.1a1 and report problems with it
to the development team.

Sean
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