[X2Go-Dev] [Branch ~x2go/x2go/pyhoca-cli_master] Rev 228: pyhoca-cli.spec: SLE support: add --prefix to setup.py install call.

Mike Gabriel mike.gabriel at das-netzwerkteam.de
Fri Jun 17 18:23:38 CEST 2016


Hi Mihai,

On Fri Jun 17 05:19:06 2016 GMT+0200, Mihai Moldovan wrote:
> On 16.06.2016 10:56 AM, Mike Gabriel wrote:
> > On  Mi 15 Jun 2016 23:18:21 CEST, noreply wrote:
> >> ------------------------------------------------------------
> >> revno: 228
> >> committer: Mihai Moldovan <ionic at ionic.de>
> >> timestamp: Wed 2016-06-15 19:41:56 +0200
> >> message:
> >>   pyhoca-cli.spec: SLE support: add --prefix to setup.py install call.
> >>
> >>   Otherwise, data will land in /usr/local/.
> >> modified:
> >>   debian/changelog
> >>   pyhoca-cli.spec
> >>
> >
> > You don't want to backport the Python X2Go (Broker) related projects
> > to those old distro versions. The list of missing python modules on
> > those old distro versions is far too long. I.e., backporting is not
> > doable (whilst providing a sensible security support for all those
> > third party packages you'd have to backport).
> 
> I didn't plan on adding CentOS 5 support, but the commits are beneficial for all
> distros (for instance, (Open)SuSE explicitly having a BuildTarget tag, even if
> newer rpm versions override it and adding the prefix option sounds sane in any
> case.)
> 
> Would you even discourage adding SLE 12 support? This version is relatively
> recent, but builds are failing because python-setuptools is not available.

Yes, I would discourage that. IIRC the Python tool chain in SLE 12 is rather poor.

> Probably because a lot of packages from the SDK DVDs are missing. No idea how to
> proceed here, though... given the SDK directory is only ~800 MB in size, could
> the other packages also be copied?

I don't think that any pkgs are missing. IIIRC, I copied all pkgs from the SDK and from SLED 12 onto Japsand.

Mike


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