Distutils-SIG April 2000

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Patch for bdist_rpm
by Harry Henry Gebel 26 Apr '00

26 Apr '00

Okay, three attachments to this message 1) patch against CVS to add bdist_rpm 2) bdist_rpm.py 3) a sample package_data file for Distutils that can be used to build a Distutils RPM (it will build an RPM without the file) I have to leave for a meeting, but when I get back I will post instructions. The patch uses --package-prefix and --record-install, but if you don't want to use them just change bdist_rpm.py lines 191-192 to the command you want to use to install. No options at this time, but I have several I am adding tonight. There are several caveats to the command as in stands now, they will no longer apply after I add the options. -- Harry Henry Gebel, Senior Developer, Landon House SBS West Dover Hundred, Delaware PyNcurses ncurses binding for Python: http://pyncurses.sourceforge.net

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PATCH: Expanded tarball abilites
by Harry Henry Gebel 26 Apr '00

26 Apr '00

I have attached a patch against CVS to expand the functionality of the tarball formats in the sdist and bdist commands. It adds the following: Adds bztar format to generate .tar.bz2 tarballs Uses the -f argument to overright old tarballs automatically, I am assuming that if the old tarball was wanted it would have been moved or else the version number would have been changed. Uses the -9 argument to bzip2 and gzip to use maximum compression. Compress uses the maximum compression by default. Tests for correct value for the 'compress' argument of make_tarball. This is one less place for someone adding new compression programs to forget to change. I have a patch (but not attached) which detects if tar is GNU tar > 1.13, but I do not know if I should submit it because it depends on the Unix-only popen2 module. Can it be assumed that only Unix users will generate tarballs, and if this assumption can be made should I submit the patch? In any case, I don't know very much about tar, so someone else would have to put the information to use after it is detected. -- Harry Henry Gebel, Senior Developer, Landon House SBS West Dover Hundred, Delaware "Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here, but has risen." Luke 24:5 (NRSV)

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How to build Debian packages (answer)
by Bastian Kleineidam 26 Apr '00

26 Apr '00

Hello, heres is the thing I do to build Debian packages: [Makefile snippet] install: ./setup.py install --prefix=/tmp/usr --exec-prefix=/tmp/usr cp -a /tmp/usr/* $(DESTIDR)/usr # install misc additional files install -c -m 755 linkchecker $(DESTDIR)/usr/bin ... Yes, its a hack, but it works. Bastian -- Bastian Kleineidam -- Debian Linux bug squasher .~. http://fsinfo.cs.uni-sb.de/~calvin/official/ /V\ // \\ /( )\ ^`~'^

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Just an idea
by Harry Henry Gebel 25 Apr '00

25 Apr '00

Just an idea for generating both .pyc and .pyo byte code: have a new command that just generates byte code in an already installed set of files, (perhaps `setup.py compile_only`), then spawn python -o setup.py compile_only from within `setup.py install` -- Harry Henry Gebel, Senior Developer, Landon House SBS West Dover Hundred, Delaware "Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here, but has risen." Luke 24:5 (NRSV)

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New snapshot
by Greg Ward 25 Apr '00

25 Apr '00

Tonight's patches, crazed and otherwise, are available at http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig/download.html#snapshot enjoy... -- Greg Ward - Unix geek gward(a)python.net http://starship.python.net/~gward/ Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

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New metadata patch
by Harry Henry Gebel 25 Apr '00

25 Apr '00

Here is a patch to add a new item to class DistributionMetadata , long_description. Most of the info for RPMs I am putting in a separate file, but this seemed appropriate for inclusion in setup.py, it would be useful, for example, for adding an option to create .lsm files. -- Harry Henry Gebel, Senior Developer, Landon House SBS West Dover Hundred, Delaware "Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here, but has risen." Luke 24:5 (NRSV)

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patch to make write_manifest respect dry_run
by Harry Henry Gebel 25 Apr '00

25 Apr '00

Here is a patch that causes sdist.write_manifest() to respect the value of dry_run. -- Harry Henry Gebel, Senior Developer, Landon House SBS West Dover Hundred, Delaware "Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here, but has risen." Luke 24:5 (NRSV)

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bdist_rpm
by Harry Henry Gebel 25 Apr '00

25 Apr '00

I'm done with bdist_rpm, I will post it tonight with instructions after I get some sleep and test it. -- Harry Henry Gebel, Senior Developer, Landon House SBS West Dover Hundred, Delaware "Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here, but has risen." Luke 24:5 (NRSV)

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Current docs online
by Greg Ward 25 Apr '00

25 Apr '00

Hi all -- I finally found one of those round tuits and put the current documentation, processed into PDF and PostScript, online: http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig/doc/ HTML to come. Greg -- Greg Ward - just another Python hacker gward(a)python.net http://starship.python.net/~gward/ I want to so HAPPY, the VEINS in my neck STAND OUT!!

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patch for bdist_dumb
by Harry Henry Gebel 25 Apr '00

25 Apr '00

Here is a patch to bdist_dumb to keep it from raising a NameErrer when it tries to raise a DistutilsPlatformError . -- Harry Henry Gebel, Senior Developer, Landon House SBS West Dover Hundred, Delaware "Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here, but has risen." Luke 24:5 (NRSV)

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Distutils-SIG April 2000