[sugar] sugar-jhbuild / avahi

[Trent Lloyd]

Howdy,

On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 01:18:05PM +0530, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 01:45:13PM -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Sat, 2007-02-03 at 13:26 -0500, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2007-02-03 at 20:13 +0900, Trent Lloyd wrote:
> > > > On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 04:19:07PM +0530, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> > > > > I've got all the base dependencies from debian testing & experimental 
> > > > > except for avahi. I see it tests:
> > > > > 
> > > > > python  -c 'import avahi'
> > > > > 
> > > > > Anybody know which deb to install to provide this? The obvious choice, 
> > > > > python-avahi, doesn't help.
> > > 
> > > What files does python-avahi install?
> 
> joshua at emit:~$ dpkg -L python-avahi
> /usr/share/python-support/python-avahi/avahi/__init__.py
> /usr/share/python-support/python-avahi/avahi/ServiceTypeDatabase.py
> /usr/share/python-support/python-avahi/avahi/SimpleGladeApp.py
> /usr/share/python-support/python-avahi/.version
> 
> > > Is python-avahi actually built with python 2.5?
> 
> It claims to be, dpkg -p shows
> 
> Provides: python2.5-avahi, python2.4-avahi
> 
> > It should just be an __init__ file that contains a few constants and a
> > few small functions to convert byte arrays to dicts.  It's pretty
> > harmless.
> 
> The __init__ is there. It seems to be looking for something else:
> 
> python2.5 -v -v -c 'import avahi' 2>&1 | grep avahi
> 
> # trying avahi.so
> # trying avahimodule.so
> # trying avahi.py
> # trying avahi.pyc
> # trying /usr/lib/python2.5/avahi.so
> # trying /usr/lib/python2.5/avahimodule.so
> # trying /usr/lib/python2.5/avahi.py
> # trying /usr/lib/python2.5/avahi.pyc
> [etc]

I'm not sure exactly what fedora's packaging policy is, it's possible as
it was packaged as part of avahi-tools to be used by those utilities,
and not in general (which is a fedora packaging bug)

Any fedora people know what/how exactly "/usr/share/python-support"
is/does/behaves?

Cheers,
Trent

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