[Mageia-dev] Python package

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 14:01:53 +0200
Oliver Burger <oliver.bgr at googlemail.com>
wrote:
> While looking into the Mageia2 python package I noticed we do have those 
> berkley db patches in the cauldron package we don't have in the Mga2 one:
> http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/cauldron/python/current/SOURCES/Python-2.7.1-berkeley-db-5.3-2.patch?view=markup
> http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/cauldron/python/current/SOURCES/Python-2.7.1-berkeley-db-5.3.patch?revision=260507&view=markup
> 
> Since we do have lib64db5.1-5.1.25 in Mga2, should we add them to the 
> Mga2 python package as well?
> Or are they not needed in Mga2?

Sorry, I don't know anything about the bsddb bindings. Furthermore, they
are not really maintained anymore, users are recommended to use pybsddb
instead:
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/bsddb3/

Regards

Antoine.