[ATrpms-users] Jamu on CentOS

[Axel Thimm]

Hi,

On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 10:29:05AM -0500, Brian Long wrote:
> Hello atrpms users,

you are probably targeting atrpms-devel people ;)

> I was trying to get jamu working on CentOS 5 and ran across a thread
> detailing the steps required to get it working.  I installed python26
> from http://www.geekymedia.com/tech-articles/rhel5-centos5-rpms-for-python-2-5-and-2-6/
> and realized I still needed to recompile a ton of other packages to
> get jamu working properly.
> 
> I recompiled python-setuptools as python26-setuptools.  I also rebuilt
> MySQL-python as MySQL-python26.  In order to get MythTV bindings, I
> patched the python bindings to use /usr/bin/python2.6 and recompiled
> MythTV just to grab the python26-MythTV package.  I still require
> python26-imdb and its requirements (python26-BeautifulSoup,
> python26-lxml, python26-sqlobject).
> 
> I'm wondering if anyone else has gone through such paces just to get
> jamu working and if it would make sense to bundle all this into
> atrpms-testing or atrpms-bleeding for others to benefit.  I believe
> the only other option to get jamu working is to migrate the backend
> from CentOS to Fedora or another newer distro.

I think if the python26 bits are made in such a way that they don't
disturb any vendor supplied python packages, then it might even make
it into a stable branch.

But the workload sounds like it would take as long as waiting for RHEL6
(and CentOS6 etc), which might carry python 2.6 already.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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