[repo-coord] Re: Sub-Repo for Yum and Smart

[Axel Thimm]

On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 04:48:12PM +0800, Jeff Pitman wrote:
> On Friday 16 September 2005 16:34, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 04:00:02PM +0800, Jeff Pitman wrote:
> > > Right now, my approach probably deviates slightly from what you've
> > > done at atrpms.  This is due to trying to keep in line with what
> > > currently is done at pyvault.  I'll extract -python completely from
> > > libxml2.spec and put it into libxml2-python.spec, then I'll use my
> > > buildsystem to output packages for python 2.2/2.3/2.4 where needed.
> >
> > That sounds awfully familiar :)
> >
> > http://atrpms.net/name/libxml2-python24/
> 
> Yeah, I know you got that one.  Mine is a slight modification using a 
> %{python} macro which expands to python24/23/22 driven by the build 
> system. If it's not defined it defaults to python.

OK, we're on the same track here. I just prefer to have the specfile
point to python and control python from the outside (in the chroot).

> http://symbiont.mn.sabren.com/rpm-python/
> 
> I've been coordinating with jbj and pnasrat on it. Much smaller and 
> builds fast.  Mainly a convenience issue for me.  Also, it builds 
> against the rpmlib installed externally instead of relying on the 
> topdir. This allows one to build against whatever rpm was distributed 
> for a particular release.

Oh yes, that's very cool! I hope Paul will use these modifications, or
even better split the python bindings off the rpm release.

> So, it's got a similar goal to your rpm-python, but with some tweaks to 
> it.

-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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