[python3-ldap] Library name change?

Brian Stinson bstinson at ksu.edu
Sun Oct 26 17:24:33 CET 2014


On Oct 26 10:33, Michael Ströder wrote:
> Brian Stinson wrote:
> > I'm considering packaging python3-ldap for Fedora[1] and EPEL[2].  For
> > distribution packages the Fedora best practices have the RPM name in the
> > format: python-{name_of_module_when_importing}. In this case, that means
> > that python3-ldap would be packaged in Fedora and EPEL as python-ldap3. 
> 
> Some Linux distributions use the package name prefix "python3-" for modules
> installed for Python 3 to distinguish them from packages installed for Python
> 2.x. I don't know how it's on Fedora though.
> 
> Ciao, Michael.
> 

Indeed, that's the situation in Fedora. For example, python-ldap3 would
be the RPM package name when it is installed under python 2.x  and
python3-ldap3 for when it's installed under python 3.x

Cheers!
Brian

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