Re: Building rpm for /usr/local/bin/python

[Valery Reznic <valery_reznic yahoo com>]

You can also as alternative use rpmrebuild
(http://rpmrebuild.sf.net) - program allows plugins
for manipulation every part of the specfile (inclue
file location)

Valery
--- Bob Proulx <bob proulx com> wrote:

> matt indigo nu wrote:
> > I've modified the centos RPM .spec file to create
> an alternate install of
> > python as version 2.4.4 in /usr/local/bin/*. This
> works great, however the
> > RPM ends up installing what seems is the system
> binary of python into
> > /usr/local/bin (verified by version# and compile
> date). 
> 
> You could use md5sum to check the signature of all
> files.  Also check
> the md5sum of the python program build by the %build
> section of the
> spec file.  Then you would be able to determine
> which file is which
> file.
> 
> > This is strange because the during the build
> process it seem to build this
> > strange version inside of
> /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/Python-2.4.4/python 
> 
> What strange about the version build in the build
> directory?  You
> don't say and I don't know enough even to guess.
> 
> > [root localhost Python-2.4.4]# pwd
> > /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/Python-2.4.4
> 
> I see that you are building this as the root user. 
> Almost everyone
> will recommend to you that you don't do that but
> instead build as a
> non-root user.  It is safer.
> 
> > [root localhost Python-2.4.4]# ./python 
> > Python 2.4.3 (#1, Mar 14 2007, 19:01:42) 
> > If I *just* built this code, why is the build date
> March 14....
> 
> Since you have the source code there you could
> always look and see.
> 
> > and more importantly where did it get Python2.4.3
> as a version? This
> > is the same as standard system python. Where is it
> getting this
> > from????
> 
> It comes from the source.  In this file:
> 
>   ./Include/patchlevel.h
> 
> In the %build part of your spec file you can check
> the version of the
> python that you have just build.  Right after the
> line that runs
> 'make' check the version of what is created.
> 
>   make
>   ./python -V
> 
> > Im going insane...slowly Thanks for all your help!
> 
> I don't suffer from insanity.  I enjoy every minute
> of it.  :-)
> 
> Bob
> 
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