[Pypgsql-users] Re: Difficulty using pypgsql rpm

[Sean R. <ja...@tu...>]

On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 10:55:26AM +0000, Stanley A. Klein wrote:
>I'm running Python 2.1, which if it wasn't provided on the Red Hat 7.2 CD's
>(in addition to the Python 1.5.2 that runs the Red Hat config system) I had
>downloaded from python.org.

The RPMs you get from python.org should install as the name "python2".
You're probably running a Python that you got elsewhere.

>I had installed the pypgsql 2.1 and 2.2 rpms downloaded from ftp.tummy.com.
> I tried both.  They each created a python2.2 site packages directory and I
>symlinked pypgsql from there to the python2.1 site packages directory.

Yeah, don't do that.  Either install Python 2.2, or re-build the pyPgSQL
with 2.1...

>My suspicion is that the options in setup.py somehow cause the pypgsql 2.1
>and 2.2 installed under the rpms as supplied on the ftp site to look in the
>wrong places for some shared objects they need.

Perhaps.  You *DO* have the postgres libraries installed, right?  I
believe the package name is "postgresql-libs"?

>Since the SRPM keeps the source files other than the rpm spec packaged up
>in a tar.gz file that the rpm build uses, I'm not sure how to fix the
>setup.py inside the tar.gz package to select the proper options for Red
>Hat.  Alternatively, could I symlink from where Red Hat puts any library or

You have to provide a patch to the source, and specify it via the
"patch0:" and "%patch0" lines in the .spec file.  The tar file in the
SRPM is always a pristine copy of the source, the build process then
applies patches to it.

You probably don't need to do this though.

Sean
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