[tahoe-dev] Need help with PyCrypto-2.4!

[Samuel Neves]

Only 7 rootkits to go:

http://student.dei.uc.pt/~sneves/pycrypto-2.4-py2.6-win-amd64.egg
<http://student.dei.uc.pt/%7Esneves/pycrypto-2.4-py2.6-win-amd64.egg>

Samuel Neves

On 31-10-2011 02:07, Brian Warner wrote:
> Ok, following Zooko's suggestion (and our practice from the previous
> PyCrypto-2.3), I'm going with the "host binary eggs of pycrypto-2.4 so
> tahoe installations won't try to compile it themselves" route.
>
> I've built binary .eggs of PyCrypto-2.4 for the two platforms available
> to me (py2.6-linux-i686 and py2.6-macosx-10.6-universal). To get
> platform parity with PyCrypto-2.3, we need folks on the following
> platforms to build binary eggs and send them to us so we can host them
> on tahoe-lafs.org:
>
>  py2.6-freebsd-8.1-RELEASE-i386
>  py2.6-linux-x86_64
>  py2.6-macosx-10.6-universal
>  py2.6-netbsd-5.0.2-i386
>  py2.6-win-amd64
>  py2.6-win32
>  py2.7-linux-x86_64
>  py2.7-win32
>
> Act quick! Now's your chance to insert a rootkit[1] into probably dozens
> of fellow platform-users :-).
>
> I'm going to release 1.9 without any other changes affecting it's use of
> PyCrypto-2.4, which means:
>
>  * if you already have a source tree that works, updating it will keep
>    working (it will use the PyCrypto-2.3 .egg in your build/support/
>    directory)
>  * if you download the 1.9 tarball and build it on a system that already
>    has PyCrypto installed, it'll work
>  * if your system doesn't already have PyCrypto installed:
>    * if you're on a platform for which we have .eggs, it will work
>    * if you manually build and install PyCrypto yourself, it will work
>    * if you just run tahoe's "python setup.py build" twice, it will work
>  * it only fails if you don't already have PyCrypto installed, you
>    aren't on a platform for which we have an .egg, and you expect
>    tahoe's "python setup.py build" to work on the first attempt.
>
> thanks,
>  -Brian
>
> [1]: please don't do this
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