Improved RPMs

Last weekend I greatly improved all of my available rpms.  If you use rpmlint to check the quality of either the specfile or the rpm itself it should return no errors or warnings.  I am also working on putting more information into my rpmbuild tutorial to encompase everything I found useful, and everything in my opinion which may be useful to others, who also are looking to create packages of their own.  All of my rpms are available here.

In addition, the specfiles to these rpms can be found as examples in my rpmbuild tutorial.

Vpython Fedora 9

Vpython , which is also know as visual vpython, is a visual modeling library for python developed at NCSU.  It is useful for modeling physics, and I have also used it for dynamics problems as well.  Ever since Fedora 8 came out visual python did not work well because of name changes with the boost libraries.  A little while ago a member of the vpython mailing list figured out what was wrong, and got vpython to compile on Fedora 9.  I downloaded the tar files, and also rpmdevtools before making rpms for the beta version and the stable 3.2.9 version of vpython.  The stable version never ran sucessfully because of an error with a mutex function.  I have been a little lazy on debugging it.  However, the beta version is stable enough, and the rpm works fine. For more information on visual python go to the vpython website at www.vpython.org.

Download/RPMS

To download vpython go to the vpython homepage.  My rpms for Fedora are also posted there, but I have them available on my download page as well.