For python packages that build python 2 and 3 subpackages from one shared src.rpm, the current example on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Python#Example_spec_file has this fragment: %if 0%{?fedora} > 12 || 0%{?rhel} > 6 %global with_python3 1 ...snip... which was written with the assumption that RHEL 7 onwards will have Python 3 packaged in the same way as we do in Fedora.
However, over the long lifetime of a RHEL release there will be multiple upstream Python 3 releases, so RH is thinking of handling Python 3 in RHEL 7 in a different way to how Fedora does it, to better support the possibility of multiple Python 3 stacks - though exactly how it's to be done in RHEL 7 isn't fleshed out yet.
Coming back to Fedora, the above means that I'd like to change the above to omit the "rhel" clause, so that it reads:
%if 0%{?fedora} > 12 %global with_python3 1
and to make equivalent changes throughout the specfiles in Fedora, so that such dual src.rpms aren't dual src.rpms in the RHEL context, only in Fedora.
Thoughts? Hope this sounds sane Dave
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 11:29:02AM -0400, David Malcolm wrote:
For python packages that build python 2 and 3 subpackages from one shared src.rpm, the current example on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Python#Example_spec_file has this fragment: %if 0%{?fedora} > 12 || 0%{?rhel} > 6 %global with_python3 1 ...snip... which was written with the assumption that RHEL 7 onwards will have Python 3 packaged in the same way as we do in Fedora.
However, over the long lifetime of a RHEL release there will be multiple upstream Python 3 releases, so RH is thinking of handling Python 3 in RHEL 7 in a different way to how Fedora does it, to better support the possibility of multiple Python 3 stacks - though exactly how it's to be done in RHEL 7 isn't fleshed out yet.
Coming back to Fedora, the above means that I'd like to change the above to omit the "rhel" clause, so that it reads:
%if 0%{?fedora} > 12 %global with_python3 1
and to make equivalent changes throughout the specfiles in Fedora, so that such dual src.rpms aren't dual src.rpms in the RHEL context, only in Fedora.
Tentative +1.... It'll need to go to the full FPC. I think that they will say that since it's RHEL/EPEL and not Fedora the change is fine. But they'd be a lot more comfortable (specifically with the changing of existing packages) if they knew what the RHEL method is going to look like.
-Toshio
On Tue, 2012-07-31 at 08:39 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 11:29:02AM -0400, David Malcolm wrote:
For python packages that build python 2 and 3 subpackages from one shared src.rpm, the current example on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Python#Example_spec_file has this fragment: %if 0%{?fedora} > 12 || 0%{?rhel} > 6 %global with_python3 1 ...snip... which was written with the assumption that RHEL 7 onwards will have Python 3 packaged in the same way as we do in Fedora.
However, over the long lifetime of a RHEL release there will be multiple upstream Python 3 releases, so RH is thinking of handling Python 3 in RHEL 7 in a different way to how Fedora does it, to better support the possibility of multiple Python 3 stacks - though exactly how it's to be done in RHEL 7 isn't fleshed out yet.
Coming back to Fedora, the above means that I'd like to change the above to omit the "rhel" clause, so that it reads:
%if 0%{?fedora} > 12 %global with_python3 1
and to make equivalent changes throughout the specfiles in Fedora, so that such dual src.rpms aren't dual src.rpms in the RHEL context, only in Fedora.
Tentative +1.... It'll need to go to the full FPC. I think that they will say that since it's RHEL/EPEL and not Fedora the change is fine. But they'd be a lot more comfortable (specifically with the changing of existing packages) if they knew what the RHEL method is going to look like.
Well, so would I :(
http://jnovy.fedorapeople.org/scl-utils/ is one possibility
In the meantime, I've opened: https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/200
python-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
-
David Malcolm -
Toshio Kuratomi