From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 13:43:20 +0200 Message-ID: From: Rudolf Sykora To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [9fans] python reloaded Topicbox-Message-UUID: ff21d2d4-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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