Chicken & Egg Problem with FC4 "Minimal" Buildroot

Peter Gordon peter at thecodergeek.com
Wed Jun 14 20:51:34 UTC 2006


Jeffrey C. Ollie wrote:
> [..] This is because the Fedora
> Python specfile template uses Python dynamically to determine a number
> of parameters.
>
> For example, the Python specfile template contains the following:
>
> Requires: python-abi = %(%{__python} -c "import sys ; print sys.version[:3]")

You can easily remove that in FC4+. RPM now figures out the python(abi)
deps automagically. :)

Reference: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Python

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Peter Gordon (codergeek42)
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