Eric Smith <e...@trueblade.com> added the comment: "rpm -ba" is very old. I think it's been at least since 2002 that "-ba" was supported by rpm.
I believe bdist_rpm is calling "rpmbuild -ba", and if that doesn't exist, then "rpm -ba" is a transition strategy until all systems supported "rpmbuild". This transition period should be over. Unfortunately today it's far more likely that "rpm -ba" will not be what you want to call, but "rpm" will almost always be found, giving this error. Most systems (certain RedHat based) ship rpmbuild as a separate command. RedHat installs it via the rpm-build package. I'd suggest just switching bdist_rpm to always use rpmbuild. Then at least the error would be that rpmbuild isn't found. ---------- nosy: +eric.smith _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11122> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
