RPM package

[daniel]

setup.py should build RPM (Red Hat Package Manager) packages for 'binary' distribution.

[rocky]

After discussions on IrcChannel, it was determined this was already available with python's distutils setup. All that is needed is that the sdist command includes MANIFEST.in in the generated tarball.

Also, setting up dependencies for the generated rpm is quite easy. Following is info for setting up a trac rpm that has acceptable Suse 9.0 dependencies (may work on redhat too, unknown at this point).

Simply copy the following text and save it in a file called 'setup.cfg' in the same directory as setup.py.

[bdist_rpm]
requires = python >= 2.1

python-xml >= 2.1
subversion-python >= 1.0.0
pysqlite >= 0.4.3
clearsilver >= 0.9.3
httpd

[rocky]

Whoops, wiki formatting did a number on my paste. Let me trying pasting setup.cfg again:

[bdist_rpm]
requires = python >= 2.1
           subversion-python >= 1.0.0
           pysqlite >= 0.4.3
           clearsilver >= 0.9.3
           httpd

[rocky]

Ok, on another sidenote, comments should be EDITABLE! :)

Anycase, one more attempt with the formatting (the previous paste was missing an entry).

requires = python >= 2.1
           python-xml >= 2.1
           subversion-python >= 1.0.0
           pysqlite >= 0.4.3
           clearsilver >= 0.9.3
           httpd

[rocky]

I checked out branches/0.6-stable (Mar/28/2004 12:45am EST). Here is the 'svn diff' output for fixing the missing MANIFEST.in and adding setup.cfg. Should be no problem applying this diff against main trunk also.

Index: setup.cfg
===================================================================
--- setup.cfg   (revision 0)
+++ setup.cfg   (revision 0)
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+[bdist_rpm]
+requires = python >= 2.1
+           python-xml >= 2.1
+           subversion-python >= 1.0.0
+           pysqlite >= 0.4.3
+           clearsilver >= 0.9.3
+           httpd
+
Index: MANIFEST.in
===================================================================
--- MANIFEST.in (revision 321)
+++ MANIFEST.in (working copy)
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-include RELEASE COPYING AUTHORS INSTALL ChangeLog THANKS UPGRADE
+include RELEASE COPYING AUTHORS INSTALL ChangeLog THANKS UPGRADE MANIFEST.in setup.cfg
 include scripts/trac-admin
 include cgi-bin/trac.cgi
 recursive-include htdocs *.png *.gif *.js README

[jonas]

Patch applied to both trunk and 0.6-stable.

Please test :)

Thanks!

[joe@…]

bdist_rpm works but doesn't respect the --fix-python flag, so it can only build for whatever "which python" returns. It should build for whatever python was used to call setup.py. i.e.:

python2.3 setup.py bdist_rpm --fix-python

Should build a package that installs into the "/usr/lib/python2.3" lib directory. Instead, on a Red Hat or Fedora Core 1 system, it drops it into "/usr/lib/python2.3". I have no clue how to fix this, as I thought it was an automagic part of distutils. I've never seen it /not/ work.

[jonas]

This sound more like a distutils bug than a Trac bug, I don't think we can do anything about this?

Moving to 0.9 until this is verified...

[Mark Rowe <edgewall.com@…>]

The following patch should resolve the problem, but it relies on a private distutils API. The API in question hasn't changed in the 5 years since it was added, so it is relatively safe:

Index: setup.py
===================================================================
--- setup.py    (revision 1301)
+++ setup.py    (working copy)
@@ -179,6 +179,7 @@
         for distro in rpm_distros.keys():
             r = generic_bdist_rpm(self.dist, distro)
             r.initialize_options()
+            self.dist._set_command_options(r, self.dist.command_options['bdist_rpm'])
             r.finalize_options()
             r.run()

[cmlenz]

Patch applied in [1304]. Thanks a lot, Mark!