[Distutils] bdist_rpm

[Mark W. Alexander]

Since bdist_rpm implies RPM-only, how about using the 
default architecture from the rpmrc file?

Mark Alexander
mwa@gate.net


On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Greg Ward wrote:

> Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 21:00:56 -0400
> From: Greg Ward <gward@ase.com>
> To: distutils-sig@python.org
> Subject: Re: [Distutils] bdist_rpm
> 
> On 25 April 2000, Fred L. Drake, Jr. said:
> >  > There should be a "--arch" ("--plat"?) option to "build_rpm" to let
> >  > people specify the RPM architecture string; it should default to the
> >  > result of 'util.get_platform()' (eg. "linux2-i586", "sunos5-sun4u").
> > 
> >   Why?
> 
> Because the convention, at least in Red Hat-land, is that RPMs for Linux
> on the Intel x86 platform are named like "foo-1.23-1.i386.rpm" or
> "bar-3.21-3.noarch.rpm".  IOW, the architecture string is not easily
> deducible from 'os.uname()' or 'distutils.util.get_platform()'.  No
> matter how many hacks and heuristics we have to do the "right" thing,
> especially since there's more to RPM-based Linux distributions than Red
> Hat.  (F'r example, SuSE would call the above to "foo.rpm" and
> "bar.rpm".  Never mind the dubious wisdom of this convention, that's how
> they do it.)
> 
> >   It seems that for each util.get_platform() there will be a single
> > value; these can simply be cataloged and a dictionary containing the
> > mapping stored in the sources (it's not a large dictionary!).
> 
> I don't want 'get_platform()' to get out of hand -- at some point, I
> might as well just steal MAL's platform.py, which strikes me as
> overkill.  (At least for now it does...).
> 
> Anyways, any time you start adding hacks 'n heuristics, you need an
> escape hatch: that's what the "--arch" option to "bdist_rpm" is for.
> 
>         Greg
> -- 
> Greg Ward - Unix nerd                                   gward@python.net
> http://starship.python.net/~gward/
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> 
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