I don't think bdist_rpm should track vendor packaging requirements, purely as those recommendations may change faster than the release process of distutils. I also believe bdist_rpm may be going away in the future:
For Fedora have you considered rpmdev-newspec which can creates a templated python spec file for your packages. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_an_RPM_package Paul On 8 November 2011 21:40, Stanley A. Klein <[email protected]> wrote: > I will need to build some Python packages for Fedora and Centos. The spec > file produced by bdist_rpm automatically includes the statement > %files -f INSTALLED_FILES > > The Fedora Python packaging instruction includes a recommendation to avoid > use of INSTALLED_FILES and provides some alternatives. That is the first > incompatibility I've encountered, but there may be more. > > The bdist_rpm code probably should be changed to enable compatibility. > Meanwhile, is there a workaround? > > > Stan Klein > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig > _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
