On 4/24/07, Stanley A. Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need to create a customized Fedora live CD with Python applications on > it. The live CD requires rpm's of the applications. (The issues are > similar to a customized Ubuntu live CD but Ubuntu requires deb's.) > > It seems that the distutils/setup.py functions that create rpms are > broken. I get errors most of the time that I try to use them. The Python > community seems to be focused on eggs, that are useful if individually > installed but don't match the distribution formats of the Linux distros. > Those distribution formats are what the distros use for their live CD's.
I've successfully created RPMs many times in the past; can you elaborate on the problems you're having? > > Is there a way to convert eggs to rpm's? Can the distutils be fixed to > reliably create rpm's? Is there some other way to install eggs on distro > customized live CD's? If it's a live CD, is there a reason you can't just put them into site-packages on the CD filesystem? (I have no idea what goes into building a Fedora live CD, so "yes, there's a reason" is a sufficient answer). > > > Stan Klein > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig > _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig