Hi All,
The IPFire-3.x version of python3-setuptools is quite old so I thought I would have a go at updating it but had a few problems on the way.
Running the existing version for 65.6.3 results in
Building python3-setuptools-65.6.3-1.ipfire3.src... python3-setuptools-65.6.3-1.ipfire3.src does not support being built on x86_64 OSError: [Errno 0] Error
Removing the line from the build section that has arches = noarch stops that error occurring. Most of the other python3 .nm files don't have that arches line present.
Trying to then run version 68.2.2 resulted in the error Could not add 'setuptools-68.2.2.tar.gz' to package: Success
Testing out the download url I found that it works with version 65.6.3 but not with 68.2.2. Looking at the download from PyPI I found that other parts of the download url are changed for different versions of the same package.
The download url for 65.6.3 and for 68.2.2 are shown below for comparison
https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/b6/21/cb9a8d0b2c8597c83fce8e9c02884b... https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/ef/cc/93f7213b2ab5ed383f98ce8020e632...
The above means that each time the version number is changed the download url will also need to be manually edited for all downloads from PyPI.
After changing the download url then the package downloaded and was successfully built.
Regards,
Adolf.