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

[Jeff Pitman]

On Friday 16 September 2005 17:13, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > 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.

I thought about hacking the same approach out for libxml2. But, they 
changed their libxml2-api.xml content between their releases which 
blows up the generator. So, it makes it nasty.  rpm has kept things 
really stable in their api. 4.4.x python bindings compile pretty ok 
with 4.2.x.  Had to drop the PLD-requested rpmds_BT function.  jbj says 
it's ok and they don't use it anyway.

-- 
-jeff