[New-bugs-announce] [issue16237] bdist_rpm SPEC files created with distutils may be distro specific

[Nick Coghlan]

New submission from Nick Coghlan:

In resolving 14443 we effectively embedded the vendor macros in the SPEC file generated by bdist_rpm on older versions of RHEL (and derivatives).

While I think that's a necessary evil (in order to create Python 3 RPMs that actually work properly at all on those platforms), we should note the distro limitation somewhere in the documentation: even if the RPM would otherwise work properly on Fedora *and* RHEL (and perhaps even openSUSE), the embedded copy of the vendor post install macros may misfire.

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assignee: docs at python
components: Documentation
messages: 172938
nosy: dmalcolm, docs at python, ncoghlan
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: needs patch
status: open
title: bdist_rpm SPEC files created with distutils may be distro specific
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.2, Python 3.3

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