[Python-checkins] r86308 - python/branches/py3k/Misc/RPM/README
sean.reifschneider
python-checkins at python.org
Sun Nov 7 22:26:53 CET 2010
Author: sean.reifschneider
Date: Sun Nov 7 22:26:53 2010
New Revision: 86308
Log:
Removing reference to ftp.python.org and enhancing RPM README.
Modified:
python/branches/py3k/Misc/RPM/README
Modified: python/branches/py3k/Misc/RPM/README
==============================================================================
--- python/branches/py3k/Misc/RPM/README (original)
+++ python/branches/py3k/Misc/RPM/README Sun Nov 7 22:26:53 2010
@@ -2,11 +2,6 @@
Python. Its contents are maintained by Sean Reifschneider
<jafo at tummy.com>.
-It is recommended that RPM builders use the python*.src.rpm file
-downloaded from the "ftp.python.org:/pub/python/<version>/rpms". These
-may be more up to date than the files included in the base Python
-release tar-file.
-
If you wish to build RPMs from the base Python release tar-file, note
that you will have to download the
"doc/<version>/html-<version>.tar.bz2"
@@ -14,3 +9,25 @@
the build to complete. This is the same directory that you place the
Python-2.3.1 release tar-file in. You can then use the ".spec" file in
this directory to build RPMs.
+
+You may also wish to pursue RPMs provided by distribution makers to see if
+they have one suitable for your uses. If, for example, you just want a
+slightly newer version of Python than what the distro provides, you could
+pick up the closest SRPM your distro provides, and then modify it to
+the newer version, and build that. It may be as simple as just changing
+the "version" information in the spec file (or it may require fixing
+patches).
+
+NOTE: I am *NOT* recommending just using the binary RPM, and never do an
+install with "--force" or "--nodeps".
+
+Also worth pursuing may be newer versions provided by similar distros. For
+example, a Python 3 SRPM from Fedora may be a good baseline to try building
+on CentOS.
+
+Many newer SRPMs won't install on older distros because of format changes.
+You can anually extract these SRPMS with:
+
+ mkdir foo
+ cd foo
+ rpm2cpio <../python3-*.src.rpm | cpio -ivd
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