[python3-ldap] Library name change?

Gary Waters mr.gary.waters at gmail.com
Mon Oct 27 06:52:07 CET 2014


Should we add the spec file to Giovanni's s files for others to rebuild
later on ?

-Gary

On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 10:51 PM, Gary Waters <mr.gary.waters at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Giovanni - He is doing this because of how Redhat manages different
> versions of Python, even though, it is the same code, the site-packages
> location for python27 and python3x are different and thus the packages are
> named differently.
>
> Brian,
> I have already packaged this up and pyasn for my RHEL6 system's with
> python27, if you keep me in the changelog, I can email you the SRC rpms. =D
>
> Regards,
> Gary
>
> On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 1:17 PM, python3ldap <python3ldap at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello Brian,
>> Thank for your message, the python3-ldap codebase is exactly the same
>> regardless of the Python version. You should not need two different
>> packages for python3-ldap. What is the best practice for Fedora in this
>> case?
>>
>> Anyway I would suggest to wait for the upcoming 0.9.6 version of
>> python3-ldap before packaging it because it has many fixes and some new
>> features. I think I will be able to release it for the next week.
>>
>> Bye,
>> Giovanni
>>
>> Il domenica 26 ottobre 2014, Brian Stinson <bstinson at ksu.edu> ha scritto:
>>
>>> 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!hello brian
>>> Brian
>>>
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