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.
-Toshio
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