Phillip J. Eby wrote: > At 10:31 AM 3/15/2006 -0600, Ian Bicking wrote: > >> Phillip J. Eby wrote: >> >>> That's because you're using 'install' rather than 'bdist_rpm'. If >>> for some reason you can't use bdist_rpm, you should use the >>> --single-version-externally-managed option to the 'install' command, >>> which tells easy_install that you're building a system package, so it >>> won't try to do dependencies and it won't build an egg file or >>> directory. Instead, it will install packages in the "traditional" >>> way, with the addition of a .egg-info/ directory that contains the >>> package's metadata so it will still work correctly at runtime. >> >> >> One thing that came up is that --single-version-... doesn't seem to >> work with Paste's namespace packages. > > > How so?
Well, I should say, it *works*, but as RPMs it doesn't work, because they all write to the same __init__.py. They all write the same content to __init__.py, but RPM doesn't like that. -- Ian Bicking / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://blog.ianbicking.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
