On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Éric Araujo <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you for sending the answer, this can be helpful for other people.
I seem to run into this problem every year when I upgrade my system and have to reinstall all my dev tools, so I must admit my message was quite selfish, hoping that I would find it the next time I go googling for this error. > I thought about suggesting you were maybe missing rpm or rpmbuild, but > decided not to send that thought because you had said “rpm and distutils are > both installed”. Yeah, I was being quite specific. I had installed the package called 'rpm'. It hadn't occurred to me that there was another package that was required. > I never really looked into the bdist_rpm code, and I have > no idea of how rpm works. I should learn a bit more when I find time to > work on http://bugs.python.org/issue11122 It seems like more of a Fedora/redhat bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697435 >> I'm still shaking my head at that *awful* error message though. > > Yep, lying about the file that’s missing is definitely not good. I’ll > investigate distutils.spawn to see if I can fix that. Cool, thanks. -- http://exolucere.ca _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
