The RPM from RawHide isn't supported on RedHat 7.3 (or technically anywhere, since RawHide is the beta distro). RedHat 7.3 has /usr/bin/python (a 1.x binary from the 'python') and /usr/bin/python2 (a 2.x binary from the 'python2'). I had to configure the spec file to depend on the python2 package, instead of the python package. I also changed a variable to point ot /usr/bin/python2 instead of /usr/bin/python. One post install script called `python` directly, so I changed that to use the variable.

In short, I back-ported the RPM from RawHide to 7.3.

Sorry for creating the confusion, I've been known to gloss over details before.

Simon White wrote:
Simon White wrote:

29-Jan-03 at 10:30, Justin Georgeson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote :


I have the latest package from RedHat (2.1-7) running on RedHat 7.3 over Postfix 1.7. I had to change the spec file slightly (use postfix and python2 instead of sendmail and python), and can give anyone who wants it a diff. The [beta] packages are available here:

Funny that they should miss the key dependency: Mailman requires
python2...

29-Jan-03 at 10:52, Justin Georgeson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote :

They didn't miss it, the RPM is aimed at RedHat 8, which has python 2. RedHat 7.3 has two packages, python and python2, so you have to build it using /usr/bin/python2 instead of /usr/bin/python (--with-python option to configure)

Yes, but why would the spec file have python in it - as I understood from
"I had to change the spec file slightly (use postfix and python2 instead
of sendmail and python)" when Mailman 2.x requires python2, so if the
Mailman spec file for the RPM of 2.x has python in it and NOT python2
there's a problem.

However, I assume that /really/ the spec file just links to
/usr/bin/python, expecting it to be python2, when some of us (like me,
too) have /usr/bin/python -> python1.x and /usr/local/bin/python ->
python2.x

Something like that. That's me wasting time again. Gotta stop this
knee-jerk mailinglist posting habit o'mine.

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