I have a user account on Dreamhost.com. I've been making RPMs for Scientific Linux and posting them here http://pj.freefaculty.org/ScientificLinux/5 A guy says "create a repository there" and I've been fighting with the problem of building, installing, and using Python modules in a place that is NOT /usr/lib/python2.4. I'm using the configure option --prefix=/home/pauljohn32/packages when I build everything. TO make RPM's configure find the Beecrypt I have to force in a CFLAG -I/home/pauljohn32/packages/include and I set the environment variable PYTHONPATH=/home/pauljohn32/packages/lib/python2.4:/usr/lib/python2.4 One problem is that the Beecrypt source from the Fedora 8 distribution is hardcoded to put the python modules in that system place, and it ignores the install prefix. I can hand edit the Makefile so they go into /home/pauljohn32/packages/lib/python2.4. I've built rpm several times and installed it, thinking I had tricked it into installing modules into my user home directory, only to have runtime failures in the createrepo scripts. Those are hardcoded to go into /usr/, but i can revise that. Still, I get crashes because python components are not found. $ createrepo /home/pauljohn32/freefaculty.org/ScientificLinux/5/i386/ 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/pauljohn32/packages/share/createrepo/genpkgmetadata.py", line 23, in ? import os File "/usr/lib/python2.4/os.py", line 133 from os.path import (curdir, pardir, sep, pathsep, defpath, extsep, altsep, ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax I'm a Perl programmer, and I am sorry to say I find Python docs not as helpful for non-root users! Please throw me a bone (for the holiday spirit). PJ -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 University of Kansas _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
