cp script.py build/lib

Why are you doing these steps? I don't understand.

In order to create an egg, to my knowledge, you create a build/lib directory and place your scripts or library inside, then run setup.py bdist_egg. Those were the steps I took, to successfully create a python 2.4 and a python 2.5 egg.

Step 3:

In current directory run:

python2.4 ./setup.py bdist_rpm --binary-only --release=py24 --python=/ usr/local/bin/python2.4

Step 4:

Grab rpm out of newly created dist directory:

This process works just fine if I substitute:

python2.4 ./setup.py bdist_egg

In my setup.py I have an entry point as follows:

entry_points="""
     [console_scripts]
     liten = liten:main
     """,
     )

What's the rest of your setup.py?

Here is the rest:

from setuptools import Extension, find_packages, setup

setup(name='liten',

version='0.1.3',

description='a de-duplication command line tool',

long_description="This command line tool will examine a file system and \

report back duplicates using a md5 checksum hash algorithm.",

author='Noah Gift',

author_email='noah.gift@gmail.com',

url='http://code.google.com/p/liten/',

license='MIT',

packages=find_packages(),

zip_safe=False,

entry_points="""

[console_scripts]

liten = liten:main

""",

)

My guess is that somehow I am not creating the RPM properly, and I
need to have a different directly structure then when creating an egg?

My guess is that your 'liten' module isn't listed in the py_modules argument to setup(). Is it?

That is correct. I am able to create eggs with entry points that work just fine without specifying my module, but are you saying that in order to use the bdist_rpm command that I also need to include: