Dnia niedziela 20 września 2009 o 12:30:15 A. Cavallo napisał(a):
Symlink is pointing to x86_64 arch file, i would like to have noarch rpm. It is pointing to /usr/bin/consolehelper as application needs to be run with root rights. I might be doing something wrong here but this is my first package.
Although the target (/usr/bin/consolehelper) of the symlink is a compiled binary and thus architecture-specific, the symlink's path and thus the symlink itself is architecture-independent, so it ought to be possible to create a noarch rpm.
Is it this relevant? In a typical system there're quite few packages: why bother to this level of detail?
For sake of space and having two packages i prefer to have it noarch.
However, reading the consolehelper manpage, it looks like you may also need to set up files under /etc/pam.d/ (not my area of expertise)
(ii) You can write a generic setup.py script, and also write a .spec file. You then create the symlink in the specfile, and add it to the % files section. In Fedora we have a script "rpmdev-newspec" that makes
Cool I wish know this before: is available to the public?
Pakcege is called rpmdevtools, but this is in Fedora it may be different in other distro.
it easy to create new boilerplate .spec files for a setup.py file.
Agree, it looks the old way of bdist_rpm hasn't quite catched up with rpm packaging recently.
The downside to this approach is that you now have a .spec file separate from your setup.py, and have to maintain both. It makes sense in our world where Python is only one of many technologies, and rpm is the native packaging format (for good or ill).
It is not a big burden: I can easily manages several packages at once on my python distro (http://pyvm.sourceforge.net).
If I can recommend I'd go for the SuSE build service: this will make easier to experiment the "hands off" build a real rpm.
Looks promising, i will try that. Thanks
Regards, Antonio
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