----- Original Message ----- > On 05/23/2012 04:30 PM, Bohuslav Kabrda wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > >> On 23/05/12 08:16, Nick Coghlan wrote: > >>> How does this compare to Tarek Ziade's existing pypi2rpm project? > >>> > >>> From a quick look, the main difference appears to be that pyp2rpm > >>> creates a spec file only, while pypi2rpm creates the RPM > >>> directly. > >> Pyp2rpm supports a packager to create an initial spec. > >> Using pypi2rpm there's IMHO no way to get produced rpms into > >> fedora. > >> (because of missing srpm) > >> > >> If you don't care about that, I guess, pypi2rpm will be good > >> enough. > >> > > > > Yes, it is exactly as Matthias says. > > > > pyp2rpm is a tool for packager, it creates an rpm specfile, which > > is prefilled with the automatically extractable data. > > pypi2rpm is a tool for user who wants to create binary rpms, but it > > can't produce specfile nor srpm in any form. > > Thanks, that makes sense - I hadn't really looked closely at pypi2rpm > until today (it had only been on my "learn more about this" list) so > I > hadn't noticed the limitation. I'd previously tried using py2pack to > create SPEC files, and they required a lot of subsequent tweaking to > bring them up to something I considered acceptable (and that wasn't > even > trying to get them up to full Fedora packaging standards). > > Perhaps having "spec" or "srpm" in the name would make the difference > more obvious? > > Regarding pyp2rpm itself, running "pip install pyp2rpm" (or > "easy_install pyp2rpm") on my Fedora 16 workstation gives me a > traceback > with "RuntimeError: That compression method is not supported". >
Hmm, that is really strange, this works for me on F17. Could it be that it depends on Python version or tar version it was created with? I created the package on F17. > Regards, > Nick. > > -- > Nick Coghlan > Red Hat Infrastructure Engineering & Development, Brisbane > _______________________________________________ > python-devel mailing list > python-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/python-devel -- Regards, Bohuslav "Slavek" Kabrda. _______________________________________________ python-devel mailing list python-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/python-devel