[Distutils] prefix in bdist_rpm

Bob Ippolito bob at redivi.com
Thu Feb 23 04:26:12 CET 2006


On Feb 22, 2006, at 5:37 PM, Pavel Roskin wrote:

> Hello, Phillip!
>
> On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 15:29 -0500, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
>> If I understand the issue correctly, the proper fix is to remove  
>> the prefix
>> setting, and have users specify "--prefix=~" when installing.
>
> Thank you for your reply!
>
> The problem is, it worked without that, so users will report it as  
> a bug
> that they cannot install the new version.  Besides, all git related
> tools are installed under $HOME/bin by default.

It's a bug that the default installation location is not Python's  
default installation location.

-bob


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