[EPEL-devel] Re: Forcing Python minor version in EPEL builds

[Mark E. Fuller]

Thank you very much - I'll try that

On January 7, 2023 5:44:00 PM GMT+02:00, Orion Poplawski <orion(a)nwra.com&gt; wrote:
> On 1/7/23 06:04, Mark E. Fuller wrote:
> > Hi Folks,
> > 
> > I am looking to update one of my packages in EPEL 8 and Python3.6 was dropped.
> > Can anyone point me in the right direction as to how to edit my spec file
> `buildrequires` and the macros to enforce Python 3.7 (or higher) instead of Python 3.6
> anto do it "the right way", not a kludge?
>
> For producing versions for other python 3.X versions, there is this:
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Python3X
>
> and you can check out the various python3*-foo-epel packages.
>
> I don't know of a 3.7, but there is 3.8 and 3.9.
>
> HTH,
>   Orion
>
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