Hello, recently I started to develop a tool in python. I discovered pip and setuptool with setup.py. It's fantastic! I can provide packaging to pypi and to rpm all in a row. I follow these guidelines: - https://packaging.python.org/tutorials/packaging-projects/#generating-distribution-archives - https://docs.python.org/3/distutils/builtdist.html?highlight=rpm - https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/Python/
With %{?python_enable_dependency_generator} the RPM provides the dependecies itself. Fantastic! But how to force the developers to use consistent names? :D For instance these python-magic and redis client packages: https://pypi.org/project/python-magic https://pypi.org/project/redis/ use names which conflict with already existent rpm packages names. In particular, "redis" in rpm is the name of the Redis server package! If I make "bdist_rpm" of python Redis client and I "yum install" the package I damage my system deleting the Redis server! The Redis client developer says that he can't change the name because this will break existent installations: https://github.com/andymccurdy/redis-py/pull/385 I think this is not a good situation. Python environment should help to improve an "inconsistent" setup. As a result, I have to make bdist_rpm of the dependencies, then I have to install the source rpm, change the name in SPEC file and rebuild the rpm package. In my package I can't use %{?python_enable_dependency_generator}, because it uses the fault pypi names, I have to provide them myself. :( Thank you for reading this noise Have a fantastic python day Marco -- Distutils-SIG mailing list -- distutils-sig@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to distutils-sig-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/distutils-sig.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/distutils-sig@python.org/message/P6L55YQUGMZFO77JVAYM4ZIE3GFG6LTU/