Dnia niedziela 20 września 2009 o 12:30:15 A. Cavallo napisał(a): > > > Symlink is pointing to x86_64 arch file, i would like to have noarch > > > rpm. It is pointing to /usr/bin/consolehelper as application needs to > > > be run with root rights. > > > I might be doing something wrong here but this is my first package. > > > > Although the target (/usr/bin/consolehelper) of the symlink is a > > compiled binary and thus architecture-specific, the symlink's path and > > thus the symlink itself is architecture-independent, so it ought to be > > possible to create a noarch rpm. > > Is it this relevant? In a typical system there're quite few packages: why > bother to this level of detail?
For sake of space and having two packages i prefer to have it noarch. > > > However, reading the consolehelper manpage, it looks like you may also > > need to set up files under /etc/pam.d/ (not my area of expertise) > > > > (ii) You can write a generic setup.py script, and also write a .spec > > file. You then create the symlink in the specfile, and add it to the % > > files section. In Fedora we have a script "rpmdev-newspec" that makes > > Cool I wish know this before: is available to the public? Pakcege is called rpmdevtools, but this is in Fedora it may be different in other distro. > > > it easy to create new boilerplate .spec files for a setup.py file. > > Agree, it looks the old way of bdist_rpm hasn't quite catched up with rpm > packaging recently. > > > The > > downside to this approach is that you now have a .spec file separate > > from your setup.py, and have to maintain both. It makes sense in our > > world where Python is only one of many technologies, and rpm is the > > native packaging format (for good or ill). > > It is not a big burden: I can easily manages several packages at once on my > python distro (http://pyvm.sourceforge.net). > > If I can recommend I'd go for the SuSE build service: this will make easier > to experiment the "hands off" build a real rpm. Looks promising, i will try that. Thanks > > Regards, > Antonio > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig > -- Michał Klich klich.mic...@gmail.com mic...@michalklich.com http://www.michalklich.com _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
