[Distutils] Packaging Distribute

kiorky kiorky at cryptelium.net
Mon Oct 5 00:26:35 CEST 2009


Sridhar Ratnakumar a écrit :
> On Sun, 04 Oct 2009 13:41:06 -0700, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> The other way would be to use Distribute instead of Setuptools for
>> what the packaging system is calling "setuptools". That's pretty
>> much what is happening in Gentoo (arch) and UHU-Linux (dev),
>> right now
> 
> Interesting. Gentoo uses distribute but retains the name 'setuptools'?
> 
>   DEPEND="!!<dev-python/setuptools-0.6.3-r2"
> 
> Ah. But what if PJE releases setuptools with the *same* version number
> 0.6.3? What would the gentoo folks do in order to get the new setuptools

The src_uri explicitly target to DISTRIBUTE.

grep SRC /usr/portage/dev-python/setuptools/setuptools-0.6.1.ebuild
SRC_URI="http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/d/distribute/distribute-${PV}.tar.gz"

If they want to reswitch to bare metal setuptools, they will update this url.

> release in their packaging system? Or did they make a decision of
> totally dropping setuptools from their repository?
> 
> -srid
> 
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