Kent Tenney wrote: > On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Lennart Regebro <rege...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 21:37, Kent Tenney <kten...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Howdy, >>> >>> Is there a recommended way to manage Debian system >>> packages with a buildout? >> Do you mean make the buildout install .deb packages? You could build a >> recipe, but it would only work on .deb systems, partly negating the >> point of a buildout... > > It would help me, and I'm all about me.
To do it properly, I think you would need to maintain a database mapping buildout distribution names to Debian binary package names. Zooko wrote something for stdeb that tries to automatically find the dependencies, to some degree of success, using apt-file. The implementation is in the function get_deb_depends_from_setuptools_requires() in http://github.com/astraw/stdeb/blob/master/stdeb/util.py _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig