Terry J. Reedy tjre...@udel.edu added the comment:
see msg108752
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nosy: +tjreedy
resolution: - wont fix
status: open - closed
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http://bugs.python.org/issue6546
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Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com added the comment:
Can you explain the reason why you need to change the distribution name,
and not use the name+version metadata to do it ?
Thanks
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OG7 ony...@users.sourceforge.net added the comment:
In most cases, a distribution named foo becomes and rpm named
python-foo, so it can't be the same name for both.
I'm using bdist_rpm to generate rpms from eggs I didn't write myself, so
an option to give external control works best.
New submission from OG7 ony...@users.sourceforge.net:
This simple Distutils patch allows choosing the name of the rpm built by
bdist_rpm.
It leaves the name of the source tarball alone, and changes the name of
the resulting spec file and rpm.
It was tested with distutils nightlies, and applies
