On 2008-12-12, Nick Craig-Wood wrote: > Failing that I'll use bdist_rpm then alien to convert to a deb which > works well enough I find.
Ages ago there was a bdist_deb that was in the python bug tracker, long since that bug tracker has been transitioned to another one, and that attachment was lost. Another pythoneer still had it a few years later, and I got it from him. In an effort to help people create real packages from python software, rpms and debs, I put together a small program to download source from pypi and convert it into an OS installable package. This is known to work on some redhat systems (modulo a problem with the redhat macro for doing python byte compilation automatically on all packages), and debian based systems. You can find the work I did on: https://launchpad.net/packaging http://pypi.python.org/pypi/packaging And more importantly, you can find bdist_deb.py here: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~jerub/packaging/trunk/annotate/11?file_id=bdist_deb.py-20080507003948-5c5mn3f68meq60hs-1 -- Regards, Stephen Thorne Development Engineer NetBox Blue - 1300 737 060 Scanned by the NetBox from NetBox Blue (http://netboxblue.com/) Can you afford to be without a NetBox? Find out the real cost of internet abuse with our ROI calculator. http://netboxblue.com/roi Scanned by the NetBox from NetBox Blue (http://netboxblue.com/) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list