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Gerry Reno wrote:
> Dr. Volker Jaenisch wrote:
>
>> Hi IPVS People!
>>
>> ipvsman is a realtime GUI for the ipvs linux loadbalancer.
>>
>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/ipvsman
>>
>> ipvsman was developed on the debian plattform.
>> Now I get several errors from not debian distributions
>>
>> Please report any installation error at once to
>>
>> ipvsman-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>> any help on packaging is welcome
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>> Volker
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>>
>>
>>
> Volker,
> Ok, the problem in building RPM's using the bdist_rpm target is that
> there is a version mangling problem in bdist_rpm.py in python itself.
> The bug is # 1360200,
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1360200&group_id=5470&atid=305470
>
> . I'm running the latest Fedora (F7) and the python rpm version is
> 2.5-12.fc7. The fix is supposed to be coming in python 2.6. Now if you
> go look at the bug you will see the patch that fixes the problem. So
> anyone that wants to compile python from source should be able to patch it.
>
> Regards,
> Gerry
>
>
>
Volker,
Well, here's a bit of bad news: The 2.6 release of python is not even
scheduled until *April 2008* !
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0361/
So it might be worth talking with the python folks and seeing if they
would backport the bdist_rpm patch back into python 2.5.
Gerry
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