trying to use spec file

[Ned Deily]

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<CAHK3FNzr1-j6wNepnBjjEB32Bjd0UBEZVyDQnzwWE_DaCZwG2w at mail.gmail.com>,
 George Georgalis <george at 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,
 nad at acm.org