On 6/26/12 8:56 AM, Bohuslav Kabrda wrote:
Hi all,
I recently came upon Tarek's blogpost [1] about converting Python packages to
rpm specfiles. I have pretty good knowledge of this, as I am a Fedora package
maintainer and Python is one of my main responsibilities. I have always wanted
to become a Python developer and becoming part of distutils-sig and trying to
give a helping hand with RPM related stuff is probably a good entry point for
me :)
To introduce myself, I work at Red Hat as a package maintainer for dynamic
languages, I am author of the new Fedora-used pyp2rpm [2], [3], which tries to
do exactly what Py2RPM is supposed to be. (Well, it's not perfect, but it can
do 90 % of the work, usually. So far, it doesn't work with distutils2, but I'll
probably be working on that when Python 3.3 gets released.) I also have some
minor not-yet-released projects in Python, I work with Django and I'm just a
Python enthusiast. In Fedora, I am a maintainer/comaintainer of both Python and
Python3, Django and another 15+ (and growing) set of packages.
Thanks for reading this through :) I'm looking forward to working with - and
learning from - all of you.
Welcome !
As I stated in the blog post, I think a separate project for all RPM
-related stuff would make a lot of sense
FWIW I have started a "pypi2rpm" project that creates RPM out of PyPI
projects, we use at Mozilla to deploy our apps,
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pypi2rpm
It's just a glue script on the top of an isolated bdist_rpm command and
distutils2.version (for sorting versions) but you can also pass your
spec file for a given
project and have Fedora/RHEL specific options (like adding python26-
prefixes etc)
It sounds like your project is on the other side, e.g. generating spec
files out of Python projects, so I'd be really interested to see how it
may replace bdist_rpm in pypi2rpm
Cheers
Tarek
_______________________________________________
Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected]
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
