CentOS 5.5 x86_64 Python 2.7

wills · 02-23-2011, 02:00 PM

I've been attempting to run rpmbuild -bb on my centos 5.5 box to create the rpm for Python 2.7 to no success. Have you been able to do this?

Any clues, suggestions or thoughts on how this is supposed to be done? There aren't too many resources describing the issue.

knudfl · 02-23-2011, 02:36 PM

Building a standard rpm package is not a good idea.

If you installed it : All your administrative tools, yum included,
will stop working. They all depend on the system python. (Version 2.4.3).

However, you can install an extra python in /home/<user-name>/ :
Like : ./configure --prefix=/home/<user-name>/

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wills · 02-23-2011, 03:31 PM

Thanks for the input. I thought it was reverse compatible? Shows how much I don't know.

knudfl · 02-24-2011, 03:41 AM

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I thought it was reverse compatible ?

May be it is.

But it is not a thing, that is tested : A lot of things will / can
go wrong, when the system python is changed.
None of the administrative tools can be updated when python-2.4.3 is missing.
The rpm date base used by yum will be confused by a wrong version added by force.
( # 'yum localinstall python-2.7<etc.>rpm' would never work.)

A thing to try : # 'rpm -e python' will show the connected packages.

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