I ended up doing things by hand. I'd like to have distutils help automate things, and if it's any help, here's what I ended up doing.
I had to do all the following as root, which I know distutils tries to avoid. Maybe there's another way around.
I copied the spec file from build/bdist.linux-i686/rpm/SOURCES/4Suite-0.9.0.tar.gz to /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES and used the following spec file (mods from distutils)
-----------------------------------%-------------------------------------- %define name 4Suite %define version 0.9.0 %define release 1
Summary: Tools for XML, DOM, XPath, XSLT, RDF and object database Name: %{name} Version: %{version} Release: %{release} Source0: %{name}-%{version}.tar.gz Copyright: FourThought, Inc Group: Development/Languages/Python Vendor: Fourthought, Inc. support@4suite.org Url: http://www.4suite.org
%description 4Suite is a collection of Python tools for XML processing and object-databases. 4Suite is an integrated packaging of 4DOM, 4XPath, 4XSLT, 4RDF, and 4ODS.
%prep %setup
%build env CFLAGS="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS" python setup.py build
%install python setup.py install --record=INSTALLED_FILES
#%clean
%files -f INSTALLED_FILES /usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/xml/xpath/XPath.py /usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/xml/xslt/XPattern.py /usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/Ft/Ods/Parsers/Odl/Odl.py /usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/Ft/Ods/Parsers/Oql/Oql.py /usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/Ft/Ods/Parsers/Oif/Oif.py /usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/xml/xpath/XPathParserBase.py /usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/xml/xslt/XPatternParserBase.py /usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/Ft/Ods/Parsers/Odl/OdlParserBase.py /usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/Ft/Ods/Parsers/Odl/OdlParseTreeMapping.py /usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/Ft/Ods/Parsers/Oql/OqlParserBase.py /usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/Ft/Ods/Parsers/Oql/OqlParseTreeTuple.py /usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/Ft/Ods/Parsers/Oif/OifParserBase.py /usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/Ft/Ods/Parsers/Oif/OifParseTreeMapping.py /usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/xml/xpath/XPath.py? /usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/xml/xslt/XPattern.py? /usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/Ft/Ods/Parsers/Odl/Odl.py? /usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/Ft/Ods/Parsers/Oql/Oql.py? /usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/Ft/Ods/Parsers/Oif/Oif.py? /usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/xml/xpath/XPathParserBase.py? /usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/xml/xslt/XPatternParserBase.py? /usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/Ft/Ods/Parsers/Odl/OdlParserBase.py? /usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/Ft/Ods/Parsers/Odl/OdlParseTreeMapping.py? /usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/Ft/Ods/Parsers/Oql/OqlParserBase.py? /usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/Ft/Ods/Parsers/Oql/OqlParseTreeTuple.py? /usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/Ft/Ods/Parsers/Oif/OifParserBase.py? /usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/Ft/Ods/Parsers/Oif/OifParseTreeMapping.py? %defattr(-,root,root)
%changelog * Wed Sep 20 2000 Uche Ogbuji uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com - initial RPM release -----------------------------------%--------------------------------------
Note that we have to manually list out more files than setup.py recognizes. This is because of the limitation of distutils with regard to extensions with multiple output files (see Mike Olson's message to distutils-sig today).
I don't know if things can be made smoother. Are we missing something?
Thanks.