hi there, I'm sorry if this isn't specifically a problem related to distutils, but more related to generation of distributions. I'm writing a MANIFEST.in file for my package. I'm testing it with 'python setup.py sdist' and 'python setup.py bdist_rpm'. During the build, some files are generated which are part of a (binary) distribution, such as html or pdf documentation. When I compile an rpm package, I'll get an error because these files were found, but were not part of a package: RPM build errors: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found: ... This sounds as if I should add them to the MANIFEST.in file. That, however, isn't even possible, since the list of files seems to be filtered (i.e. matched with existing files) before the installation (or even building) process even starts, i.e. these files don't exist yet ! Does this mean I can't use a manifest template, but have to write a full manifest manually ? Or am I missing something ? Thanks, Stefan