Petr, thank you for these clarifications. I'm new on this world, and I'm a bit confusing. Resuming, I have a SPEC file with %{?python_enable_dependency_generator} that force the Redis server replacement with the python redis client. The problem, from what I can see, is that RPM package also include the following Provides: <%{name}> = <version> For this reason when I installed the package which requires python3.Ydist(redis), the Redis server was "updated" (replaced) with the python client Redis package. I fixed this modifying the %{name} in SPEC file of the client Redis package with something different from "redis". In this way I can still use %{?python_enable_dependency_generator} in my SPEC package. The automatic provides doc https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/Python/#_the_pytho... doesn't seem to refer to that Provide value. It only talk about python3.Ydist(CANONICAL_STANDARDIZED_NAME) For the python3.Ydist(python-magic) there is no similar fix, because there is an already existing python package with the same name. I adjusted the Require version in my own package to deal with this. Thank you for the hint on pyp2rpm, I agree that anyway bdist_rpm makes a non-definitive SPEC file. Finally I apologize for the wrong place where to ask help for this. Thank you again for your help Marco Il giorno mer 15 gen 2020 alle ore 11:55 Petr Viktorin <encukou@gmail.com> ha scritto:
On 2020-01-15 10:33, Marco Favero wrote:
Hello,
recently I started to develop a tool in python. I discovered pip and setuptool with setup.py. It's fantastic! I can provide packaging to pypi and to rpm all in a row. I follow these guidelines: - https://packaging.python.org/tutorials/packaging-projects/#generating-distri... - https://docs.python.org/3/distutils/builtdist.html?highlight=rpm - https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/Python/
With %{?python_enable_dependency_generator} the RPM provides the dependecies itself. Fantastic!
But how to force the developers to use consistent names? :D
For instance these python-magic and redis client packages:
https://pypi.org/project/python-magic https://pypi.org/project/redis/
use names which conflict with already existent rpm packages names. In particular, "redis" in rpm is the name of the Redis server package! If I make "bdist_rpm" of python Redis client and I "yum install" the package I damage my system deleting the Redis server! The Redis client developer says that he can't change the name because this will break existent installations: https://github.com/andymccurdy/redis-py/pull/385
I think this is not a good situation. Python environment should help to improve an "inconsistent" setup.
As a result, I have to make bdist_rpm of the dependencies, then I have to install the source rpm, change the name in SPEC file and rebuild the rpm package. In my package I can't use %{?python_enable_dependency_generator}, because it uses the fault pypi names, I have to provide them myself. :(
Thank you for reading this noise Have a fantastic python day
Hi! Guessing by the guideline you follow, you're packaging for Fedora. It would be best to use the python-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org mailing list for that.
PyPI and distro repositories are different namespaces. They contain different packages (Python packages vs. distro-maintained ones in any language). They're governed by different people and different guidelines. The packages are often maintained by different people (developers vs. distro maintainers). It would be great if the names for similar things were similar across namespaces, but it's not feasible to always be in sync.
To solve this issue, Fedora uses virtual provides. A RPM with a package from PyPI should provide:
python3.7dist(<name on PiPI>) = <version>
... and any packages can depend on that. That's what the Python dependency generator uses; the names of RPMs are not relevant. For the name of the RPM, it's conventional to use "python3-<name on PYPI>", but you can use something else to prevent conflicts.
The bdist_rpm command is unlikely to be improved. It will give you a RPM that can probably be installed, but doesn't really conform to any distro guidelines. It's also part of setuptools, which is quite hard to work on and is being slowly deprecated.
You could try pyp2rpm ( https://github.com/fedora-python/pyp2rpm ), which generates a spec file that you can then edit.