I was using rpmbuild to create Python RPMs based on a local tarball. I would
receive this somewhat cryptic error:
```error: File /home/makerpm/rpmbuild/SOURCES: Is a directory```
After digging through the rpmbuild code for hints, it turned out that where
py2pack (which I used for generating spec files) produced a spec file header of:
```Source: https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/source/m/mixbox/```
I needed:
```Source:
https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/source/m/mixbox/mixbox-%{version}.tar.gz```
It was not obvious to me that the name of the tarball in fact needed to be in
the external URL when I was building everything locally. I'd like to suggest a
more explicit error if the version / tarball name cannot be extracted from the
Source field.
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