Guys:
I just checked into SVN an updated
spec file which introduces a new package: systemimager-bittorrent - it requires
that the bittorrent RPM (providing the bittorrent tools) be installed
separately.
Currently when you do a "make install
all", it does also try to install the BitTorrent binaries/libraries on the image
server - these are currently not included in the package. The reason is
because the python libraries are installed to specific python library paths, eg.
/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/BitTorrent/BeautifulSupe.py.
If we are to include these files,
then you'll have trouble installing the RPM on a system where the default python
installation is not 2.3.
One way around this is to rebuild
this RPM on different distroes - but this is against the tradition where all
systemimager RPMs are noarch and distro-independent.
Another issue is if we do end up
shipping BitTorrent and the necessary python libraries (python-crypto,
python-khashmir) in the systemimager-bittorrent package, then there'll be issues
if the user wants to install these RPMs separately.
Thoughts?
Cheers,
Bernard
