[Distutils] distutils in Mandrake 8.2

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Marko Samastur wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I have a problem that I'm not able to solve on my own. I'm using
> python2.2 that comes with Mandrake Linux distribution 8.2.
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> I have a tree of python sources that I'd like to package in more or
> less the same tree, which would be installed in site-packages under
> subdirectories pyortal and pyortal-modules.
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> If I understand python documentation correctly, if I want those modules
> to be easily accessible for everyone, I need to have .pth file in
> site-packages that points to all subdirectories (and right, if I create
> it manually, it works). The problem I have is that if I run bdist_rpm,
> I can see a message that is telling me that .pth is being build, but
> the file is missing in the created rpm.

Why .pth files ? Why not simply *copy* the code to site-packages ?
 
> If I build with bdist only, it creates and includes pyortal.pth (but it
> only lists pyortal directory in it without any subdirectory). So, what
> am I doing wrong?
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> While I'm at it...is there an easy way to include normal text files in
> module distribution? Again, if I'm not mistaken, the current way to
> achieve this is to list every one of them in MANIFEST.in.

I think you only need to put *.txt into MANIFEST.in (provided
your text files use that extension).
 
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