On Tue, 2012-07-31 at 08:39 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 11:29:02AM -0400, David Malcolm wrote: > > For python packages that build python 2 and 3 subpackages from one > > shared src.rpm, the current example on > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Python#Example_spec_file > > has this fragment: > > %if 0%{?fedora} > 12 || 0%{?rhel} > 6 > > %global with_python3 1 > > ...snip... > > which was written with the assumption that RHEL 7 onwards will have > > Python 3 packaged in the same way as we do in Fedora. > > > > However, over the long lifetime of a RHEL release there will be multiple > > upstream Python 3 releases, so RH is thinking of handling Python 3 in > > RHEL 7 in a different way to how Fedora does it, to better support the > > possibility of multiple Python 3 stacks - though exactly how it's to be > > done in RHEL 7 isn't fleshed out yet. > > > > Coming back to Fedora, the above means that I'd like to change the above > > to omit the "rhel" clause, so that it reads: > > > > %if 0%{?fedora} > 12 > > %global with_python3 1 > > > > and to make equivalent changes throughout the specfiles in Fedora, so > > that such dual src.rpms aren't dual src.rpms in the RHEL context, only > > in Fedora. > > > Tentative +1.... It'll need to go to the full FPC. I think that they will > say that since it's RHEL/EPEL and not Fedora the change is fine. But they'd > be a lot more comfortable (specifically with the changing of existing > packages) if they knew what the RHEL method is going to look like. Well, so would I :(
http://jnovy.fedorapeople.org/scl-utils/ is one possibility In the meantime, I've opened: https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/200 _______________________________________________ python-devel mailing list python-de...@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/python-devel