[Distutils] prefix in bdist_rpm

Pavel Roskin proski at gnu.org
Thu Feb 23 02:37:09 CET 2006


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.

I guess the bdist_rpm target won't be used in StGIT for now.  A manually
created specfile will be used instead.  I'll appreciate if bdist_rpm is
fixed so that it can be used in the future.

Please note that I'm not asking for anything weird.  If it's already
possible to use a non-default prefix for the install target, it would be
natural to use a different prefix for the rpm packages.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin



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