[Distutils] Changes in RPM affecting Distutils

amk at amk.ca amk at amk.ca
Tue Oct 28 07:42:32 EST 2003


On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 04:44:09PM -0500, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:
> Has anyone looked into fixing this in Distutils yet?

It's supposed to be fixed; from bdist_rpm.run():

        rpm_cmd = ['rpm']
	if os.path.exists('/usr/bin/rpmbuild') or \
	   os.path.exists('/bin/rpmbuild'):
           rpm_cmd = ['rpmbuild']

Is rpmbuild somewhere else?

--amk




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