Re: Problems with scripts in a common spec file

2016-05-26 Thread John Dennis
On 05/26/2016 08:24 AM, Tomas Orsava wrote: Hi, those are very good questions to which you should be able to find answers on the Python RPM Porting Guide [0]. You are right that this should be better covered in the packaging guidelines, sadly the process of changing them is rather problematic so

New PyPI URL format for tarballs/sources

2016-05-26 Thread Tomas Orsava
Hi! The Python Package Index (PyPI) has decided to change the format of the URLs to download tarballs/sources. The new format is not predictable, because part of the URL is a hash of the contents of the file. [0] This means that for the vast majority of Python packages (those using PyPI to do

Re: Problems with scripts in a common spec file

2016-05-26 Thread Tomas Orsava
Hi, those are very good questions to which you should be able to find answers on the Python RPM Porting Guide [0]. You are right that this should be better covered in the packaging guidelines, sadly the process of changing them is rather problematic so no one yet had the time to update them.