On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Akira Kitada <[email protected]> wrote: > In my opinion, bdist_rpm and the like are "nice hacks" at best > and nothing more. > Peoplo who love rigorous distribution or control freaks would probably > prefer to > bother packaging themselves and that will leads them to use apt, yum...
I think there's a slight misunderstanding here on what bdist_rpm does : it creates a rmp file you can then use with yum, it doesn't install anything. It does it by taking the metadata out of your setup.py file and make a rmp file with RPM own metadata structure. see http://docs.python.org/dev/distutils/builtdist.html > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 7:00 AM, Tarek Ziadé <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Akira Kitada <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hello Tarek, >>> >>> I think "apt, yum, etc" would be also used for packaging/distributing apps. >>> >> >> There is already a command that let you create a rpm package >> (bdist_rpm) out of a python package, >> >> There were also a bdist_deb project but it never made it to distutils, >> also for Debian there's a policy on how to work with python packages : >> http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/python-policy/ >> >> Last, this mailing list had a lot of threads about the fact that >> there's no standard way in Python to work with resources that >> could be installed in the system, using a LSB-compliant approach. >> >> So I don't have (I think no one does at this point) any clear view of >> what could be done in this area. >> >> Tarek >> -- >> Tarek Ziadé | Association AfPy | www.afpy.org >> Blog FR | http://programmation-python.org >> Blog EN | http://tarekziade.wordpress.com/ >> > -- Tarek Ziadé | Association AfPy | www.afpy.org Blog FR | http://programmation-python.org Blog EN | http://tarekziade.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
