[Distutils] Trouble with bdist_rpm and data_files

[Lucas Kannebley Tavares]

On 04/08/2011 10:57 AM, Lucas Kannebley Tavares wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I wrote a setup.py file and managed to get debhelper to create a working
> deb package out of it. But I am having trouble with creating a binary
> rpm package. Apparently all data files are not found by rpmbuild.
>
> running install_data
> error: can't copy 'etc/proj.conf': doesn't exist or not a regular file
> error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.drqkKR (%install)
>
> (I changed the file name for proj.conf in the e-mail as to not divoulge
> any corporate information)
>
> But that file does indeed exist. It is at etc/file.conf in the repo, and
> it should be moved to /etc/proj/cli/proj.conf
>
> The BUILDROOT/etc/proj/cli directory is properly created.
>
> There are other data files listed, but none of them are copied properly,
> even if I change their order.
>
> Any help on this would be appreciated.
> Thank you.
>

Problem solved.
I was missing a proper MANIFEST file.
Thank you for you time.

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Lucas Kannebley Tavares
Infrastructure Team
IBM Linux Technology Center