[Python-Dev] RPM *.spec file

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Sat, 05 Jan 2002 12:29:01 -0500


> Hi!
> 
> Could someone point me to the RPM *.spec file with which was built the
> Python 2.2 (ftp://ftp.python.org/pub/python/2.2/rpms/)?

I'm cc'ing Sean Reifschneider, who created them.  I'm sure he has them
somewhere.

> I've already installed from source, but I would like make some order in
> my system, and currently I have 3 versions of Python in various dirs :-)
> 
> Q: why is the specfile not distributed with the sources? I've found some
> outdated BeOpen specfile, but it doesn't work. 
> Yes, I can fix it, but what for when somewhere there seems to exist a
> fixed one, since *.rpm binaries are supported on ftp.python.org?

I've asked Sean to contribute his specfile, but he hasn't given them
to me yet.

You did read http://www.python.org/2.2/rpms.html I hope?

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)