Chris McDonough wrote:
Well I like to use "pristine" binary builds from ZC to get reproducible environment, but having an RPM will mean that it'll only allow me to install it in one place, so only one Zope instance.
Not just one Zope instance, but probably just one Zope software_home for any particular major Zope release. E.g. you will likely not be able to install both Zope-2.7.0 and Zope-2.7.1 via RPM without doing some hackery, but you should be able to install Zope-2.7.1 and Zope 2.8.0 without fear of conflicts.
Many instances can use the same software home and making an instance home will be very easy under 2.7+. It will also be a required step, so there's no chance you'll forget it. ;-)
Well ok, I know lots of ways to get what I need (rpm2cpio for one), but it will complicate my life a bit.
Does what I said above change this?
Yes, that's a cleaner way to look at it. I'm not overly fond of several instance_homes with only one software_home as I really want to keep different sites completely separated (i.e., when upgrading the software for one site I don't want it to impact my other test sites). But that's probably only me. In this light an RPM is ok. Florent -- Florent Guillaume, Nuxeo (Paris, France) +33 1 40 33 79 87 http://nuxeo.com mailto:fg@nuxeo.com