On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 10:04 -0800, Bob Ippolito wrote: > On Feb 23, 2006, at 9:37 AM, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> > Apparently, distutils is good at allowing to do "something > > strange", but > > not something I want. > > It has no idea what you want, that's why it gives you control over > the process. My whole point is that I don't have such control. > > But if that's not hard, could bdist_rpm simply ignore those values > > instead? Probably even easier. The only thing that is needed is > > to set > > them to given values in the %install section of the specfile. > > It's not hard per se, but that behavior would be wrong. If someone > wants to build RPMs to install to an alternate location, it should be > allowed. The bdist_rpm section could have its own "prefix" setting in setup.cfg. In absence of that, the bdist_rpm default should be that same as the rpm default, called %_prefix and usually equal to /usr. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
