I noticed that there are pypy 1.7 RPMs for Fedora 17 but not for Fedora 16. Would you consider backporting pypy 1.7 to Fedora 16? By the way, I also noticed that pypy 1.8 has been released, but beggars can't be choosers. :) Thanks for all of the great work you've done in packaging pypy. It's made it really easy to get addicted to performance improvements. :)
FWIW, am attempting to build 1.8 into rawhide right now :) I regard pypy as a leaf package for now, and thus I plan to freely rebase it within Fedora as upstream releases new versions. So, sure, I'll try building 1.8 into F16 once it's proven to build in rawhide (and into F17 and EPEL also).
I agree that it's a leaf package. Furthermore, anyone who's using it would almost certainly value cutting edge over stability--if stability is the primary concern, then CPython is the clear interpreter to use.
It turns out that the fc18 builds work fine in Fedora 16. I've tried both pypy 1.7 and pypy 1.8 (pypy-1.8-2.fc18), and I haven't noticed any problems with either. Thanks for the great work.
pypy-1.8-2.fc16 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 16. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/pypy-1.8-2.fc16
Package pypy-1.8-2.fc16: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 16 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing pypy-1.8-2.fc16' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-1558/pypy-1.8-2.fc16 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
pypy-1.8-2.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.