[Python-Dev] Python 3.4 RPM on AIX (original) (raw)

Zachary Ware zachary.ware+pydev at gmail.com
Tue Feb 17 06:54:57 CET 2015

On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 10:50 PM, Blaxton <blaxxton at yahoo.com.dmarc.invalid> wrote:

I am using the spec file that comes with Python source code which downloaded from python.org website source file is set on spec file to file with bz2 format while there is only .xz and zipped are available to download.

I thought somehow some one from development team has wrote that .spec file and maybe supporting it. This is like no support.

The spec file in Misc/RPM has not been maintained in quite some time; the last change to that file that wasn't just a version bump was one [1] whose commit message was "#5776: fix mistakes in python specfile. (Nobody probably uses it anyway.)" and was committed four and a half years ago. It's not unlikely that you're the first person to use the file since then :).

We should probably just remove the file, but if you manage to get it working and would like to provide a patch on bugs.python.org, it would probably be accepted.

[1] https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/ef75ecd0e1a7

-- Zach

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