[Distutils] [Enthought-dev] Building Fedora RPMs

[Dave Peterson]

Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> At 10:37 AM 10/23/2007 -0400, Stanley A. Klein wrote:
>> On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 18:15 -0500, Dave Peterson wrote:
>> > Stanley A. Klein wrote:
>>
>> > > Other failures included:
>> > >
>> > > endo - unpackaged pyc and pyo files (looks like a setup.py issue)
>> > >
>> >
>> > I get rpms built for this just fine.  Are you sure you have no local
>> changes?
>> >
>>
>> The problem with this one may be a setuptools issue.
>>
>> The failure in doing the bdist_rpm is on a file endo.py, which is
>> identified to setuptools in the setup.py as a script.  The file is
>> originally in enthought/endo/scripts.  The pyc and pyo files get built
>> there properly because of the [install] optimize=1 option in setup.cfg.
>> However, the INSTALLED_FILES also lists a /usr/bin/endo.py without 
>> the pyc
>> and pyo files.  The Fedora rpm system causes those optimization files to
>> be built unbeknownst to setuptools, which then causes the installed but
>> unpackaged files error.
>>
>> I tried declaring the pyc and pyo files in the script statement, but at
>> that point they don't exist and I got an error to that effect.
>>
>> There is probably a workaround, like commenting out the scripts
>> statement in the setup.py and providing rpm a post-install script to 
>> copy
>> endo.* into /usr/bin.  However, it would create separate setup.py files
>> for rpm and non-rpm packaging.
>
> Better still, take off the '.py' on the 'endo' script, and/or use 
> setuptools' script generation support.
>
I'll take a stab at switching it to use the setuptools script support.

-- Dave