[9fans] python reloaded

[Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com>]

Hello,

I wanted to install python. From /n/sources/contrib/bichued/python I downloaded

python-2.5.1-ape.tgz
python-2.5.1-sys.tgz.

I untared the former in my home directory.
I untared the latter in / (I got /sys/python created...) --- this I
read in README.Plan9 file in python-2.5.1-ape.tgz.

Also in
README.Plan9 file in python-2.5.1-ape.tgz
I read I should use two patches
/n/sources/patch/applied/ape-ftruncate
/n/sources/patch/ape-chmod-dirbit.

Should I just copy the files from there (but which, actually, I see
e.g. chmod.c, chmod.c.orig, chmod.c.new) to the appropriate directory
(which I can read from the 'files' file), and recompile? Can the
path/apply command be used locally?

Also, why are there two files, python-2.5.1-ape.tgz and
python-2.5.1-sys.tgz? (When a new version of python, e.g. 2.6, is
wanted, what must be done?)

Also, again in README.Plan9 there is a list of recommended
contrib/install packages, but when I run them in the given order,
there are places where a package complains about dependency, to be
solved by another package which follows. Thus should it be run with
contrib/install -f?

Thanks
Ruda