New submission from Rudd-O <rud...@rudd-o.com>: Description of problem:
Building pre-release python distutils packages with python setup.py bdist_rpm works, but the version number is "RPM-higher" than the official release package that is released later. This constitutes a problem because many of the components in major Python apps like Zope -- distributed as cheese shop eggs and downloadable via pip or buildout -- are pre-release packages which, when turned into RPMs, contain RPM-invalid version numbers. The RPMs build, but the pre-release packages are considered "newer" by yum, so you can imagine the havoc that breaks. How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. python setup.py bdist_rpm 2. inspect version / release number of resulting RPMs, find out it's wrong 3. do not profit! Actual results: distutils package version: 1.4a rpm package version: 1.4a Expected results: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/NamingGuidelines#Non-Numeric_Version_in_Release Additional info: patch attached. works against python 2.4, may apply fine to python 2.5 or 2.6 too since distutils hasn't undergone that big of a rewrite. Ojo: the patch has been tested with distutils AND setuptools. ---------- assignee: tarek components: Distutils files: distutils-bdist_rpm-prereleaseversion.patch keywords: patch messages: 83454 nosy: Rudd-O, tarek severity: normal status: open title: distutils produces invalid RPM packages of prerelease python packages versions: Python 2.4 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file13300/distutils-bdist_rpm-prereleaseversion.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue5474> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
