Here is the situation: I have a large project in one big cvs tree. i want to be able to release in differen't packages from this tree using different setup.py's. My project is organized like: ./ (root dir) setup_A.py #package = ['A'] setup_B.py #package = ['B'] A/ __init__.py moduleA.py B/ __init__.py moduleB.py The bdist command works fine with this setup. If i use the distutils.core.setup, the sdist command works correctly too. So here is the problem: using setuputils.setup, the sdist command will package the WHOLE source tree (both directories A and B) when using either of the setup_*.py. I'm quite certain this is because both A/ and B/ are under cvs source control, and setup assumes that the whole source tree is required for the sdist. How do i turn this behaivior off or develop a work around? Thanks! S Joshua Swamidass