[Distutils] Missing packages

[Juha Tuomala]

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On Thursday 16 March 2006 21:52, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> Yes.  The simplest way to get it is probably to build the Cheetah RPM using 
> setuptools, by getting the source and then running this in the directory 
> with its setup.py:
> 
>      python -c "import setuptools; execfile('setup.py')" bdist_rpm ...

These switches are pobably used:

  --spec-only          only regenerate spec file
  --source-only        only generate source RPM
  --binary-only        only generate binary RPM

I tried --spec-only and the spec file what it generates
might work, but would never pass to Fedora/Red Hat/Suste distro
as such.

Linux distributions simply are that different from each other that
you can't mix specs, you need to write its own to every distro
itself.

In Linux world dependencies are handled with package management
with RPM and yum/apt like tools. For me it looks that setuptools
handles same area which is overlapping. I can see it's importance
in systems like Solaris where its own package tool is so ancient
what doesn't meet todays needs but in case of RPM or Linux, it
would be just better to be able to do simple install and let the
system native tools to handle the rest.

BR,

Tuju

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