Re: Sub-Repo for Yum and Smart

On Friday 16 September 2005 17:13, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > http://symbiont.mn.sabren.com/rpm-python/
> >
> > I've been coordinating with jbj and pnasrat on it. Much smaller and
> > builds fast. =C2=A0Mainly a convenience issue for me. =C2=A0Also, it bu=
ilds
> > against the rpmlib installed externally instead of relying on the
> > topdir. This allows one to build against whatever rpm was
> > distributed for a particular release.
>
> Oh yes, that's very cool! I hope Paul will use these modifications,
> or even better split the python bindings off the rpm release.

I thought about hacking the same approach out for libxml2. But, they=20
changed their libxml2-api.xml content between their releases which=20
blows up the generator. So, it makes it nasty.  rpm has kept things=20
really stable in their api. 4.4.x python bindings compile pretty ok=20
with 4.2.x.  Had to drop the PLD-requested rpmds_BT function.  jbj says=20
it's ok and they don't use it anyway.

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=2Djeff