Re: Nmap 4.23RC1 released

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 12:36:45PM -0800, Fyodor wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 04:07:28PM +0100, Patrick Derwael wrote:
> >  
> > Apparently, the installation of zenmap 4.23RC1 requires the exact Python
> > version to be exactly 2.4
> > I'm running Python 2.5, and installation fails with 
> > "/usr/bin/python2.4 is needed by zenmap-4.23RC1-1.noarch"
> >  
> > Any clue anyone how to pass this by ??
>
> Hi Patrick.  We were hoping that people with Python 2.5 would
> generally also have 2.4 for compatability reasons.  Apparently that
> isn't always the case.  What distribution are you running?  We could
> make a separate Python 2.5 RPM, but it would be nice to find a
> solution which avoids that.  After all, I'm still celebrating us not
> having to have x86 and x86_64 versions like we did with NmapFE.  I
> think the only difference is that this needs to be installed in the
> Python 2.5 module directory rather than 2.4.
>
> Does anyone know a good way to handle this in RPMs?  We would be
> interested in seeing RPMs for Python scripts which handle both
> versions without requiring separate rpms?

One idea I had is just to install all the modules into both
/usr/lib/python2.4 and /usr/lib/python2.5, having duplicate files in
both directories. It's inelegant and only handles two different Python
versions.

I notice that Debian uses a package called python-central to handle
version-insensitive installation of Python modules:

http://packages.debian.org/etch/python-central

David Fifield

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