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diff --git a/Misc/RPM/README b/Misc/RPM/README index f3a2557..d883c95 100644 --- a/Misc/RPM/README +++ b/Misc/RPM/README @@ -2,11 +2,6 @@ This directory contains support file used to build RPM releases of Python. Its contents are maintained by Sean Reifschneider <jafo@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 @@ file from python.org and place it into your "SOURCES" directory for 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 manually extract these SRPMS with: + + mkdir foo + cd foo + rpm2cpio <../python3-*.src.rpm | cpio -ivd |