[Distutils] Finding dependencies and Limiting download

[Ian Bicking]

Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> At 10:31 AM 3/15/2006 -0600, Ian Bicking wrote:
> 
>> Phillip J. Eby wrote:
>>
>>> That's because you're using 'install' rather than 'bdist_rpm'.  If 
>>> for some reason you can't use bdist_rpm, you should use the 
>>> --single-version-externally-managed option to the 'install' command, 
>>> which tells easy_install that you're building a system package, so it 
>>> won't try to do dependencies and it won't build an egg file or 
>>> directory.  Instead, it will install packages in the "traditional" 
>>> way, with the addition of a .egg-info/ directory that contains the 
>>> package's metadata so it will still work correctly at runtime.
>>
>>
>> One thing that came up is that --single-version-... doesn't seem to 
>> work with Paste's namespace packages.
> 
> 
> How so?

Well, I should say, it *works*, but as RPMs it doesn't work, because 
they all write to the same __init__.py.  They all write the same content 
to __init__.py, but RPM doesn't like that.


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