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This directory contains support file used to build RPM releases of
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Python. Its contents are maintained by Sean Reifschneider
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<jafo@tummy.com>.
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If you wish to build RPMs from the base Python release tar-file, note
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that you will have to download the
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"doc/<version>/html-<version>.tar.bz2"
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file from python.org and place it into your "SOURCES" directory for
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the build to complete. This is the same directory that you place the
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Python-2.3.1 release tar-file in. You can then use the ".spec" file in
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this directory to build RPMs.
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You may also wish to pursue RPMs provided by distribution makers to see if
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they have one suitable for your uses. If, for example, you just want a
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slightly newer version of Python than what the distro provides, you could
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pick up the closest SRPM your distro provides, and then modify it to
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the newer version, and build that. It may be as simple as just changing
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the "version" information in the spec file (or it may require fixing
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patches).
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NOTE: I am *NOT* recommending just using the binary RPM, and never do an
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install with "--force" or "--nodeps".
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Also worth pursuing may be newer versions provided by similar distros. For
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example, a Python 3 SRPM from Fedora may be a good baseline to try building
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on CentOS.
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Many newer SRPMs won't install on older distros because of format changes.
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You can manually extract these SRPMS with:
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mkdir foo
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cd foo
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rpm2cpio <../python3-*.src.rpm | cpio -ivd
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