hi,

> > i was going to package zope-2.5.0 (http://www.zope.com) and have some
> > questions:
> >
> > - it depends on python-2.1.2
> 
> "...or newer", or 2.1.2 specifically?

it has to be 2.1.2 speciffically. the newer versions (2.2.x) of python
are not compatible with the current version of zope. this is why you
relly would need a system-zope package which explicitely depends on
python-2.1.1, even if you would install zope as third-party
binary. (the only version of python in stable is 2.2)

another related question: i have a package system-zope installed, which
depends on python-2.1.2 and i want to rebuild python. when i execute
  fink rebuild python
it rebuilds the newer version 2.2 which i can't install, anyway. how
can i rebuild python-2.1.2? i even tried
  dpkg --purge --force-depends python; fink install python
but this also just rebuilds python-2.2.1. only
  dpkg --remove python system-zope; fink install system-zope
works. is this a fink bug?

> > - it would need a low permission user to run the server. can i use the
> >   next available uid (259) and patch the passwd package accordingly?
> 
> ...where did the 259 figure come from? Can you be sure users won't have
> used that number already? (I'll admit, I don't know what the convention
> for giving out these numbes might be, but it seems like things are
> flexible enough that users may have taken it already, or something else
> they installed used it, etc.)

in /sw/etc/passwd-fink you find the comments
 #
 # Fink passwd additions
 #
 # IDs are in the range 250..299
 #
and the uids 250-258 are taken by other fink users. i think the idea
is that people using fink just should not use uid's 250..299. but
wasn't sure if i can just grep one uid for zope.

> I know a little Python, but being able to install Zope with Fink would be
> a nice additional step there. 

same here ;)

> I'd be willing to help you out if you need testing or anything like
> that...

thank you. lets see how far we can get...


cheers,
  kilian

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