On 11/23/2015 06:00 PM, Dan Callaghan wrote:
Excerpts from John Dulaney's message of 2015-11-19 17:11 -05:00:
Since Fedora is now requiring python2 packages have a buildrequires
of python2-setuptools, I put together a quick metapackage(0)(1) that in turn
requires python-setuptools. This will make packaging for Fedora and
epel to be somewhat easier.
What are your thoughts on this, and should we include this in epel?
At first it struck me as an abomination, but I've come around.
As an alternative, it may not be a bad idea to have one large metapackage
that builds sub-metapackages for the various similar situations. Thoughts
on this?
I would go for the single meta-package, assuming we're talking more than
5 or so package that need this. And Version should be 0. I've attached
my version. I've specified Release in the sub-package so that we don't
have updates as packages are added/removed and the main release is
bumped. Also set license to MIT as that is the default license for spec
files, and that's about all this is.
Would it be easier to request the RHEL packages to add a virtual
Provides for the python2-* name? That is, python-setuptools in RHEL
could provide python2-setuptools.
Well, one has already been made for setuptools:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1259474 with no comments so
far. RHEL 7.2 just came out so it will certainly be no sooner than 7.3.
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Name: python2-provides
Summary: python2-provides metapackage
Version: 0
Release: 2%{?dist}
BuildArch: noarch
License: MIT
%description
A collection of python2 metapackages to pull in python-foo when python2-foo is required.
%package python2-setuptools
Summary: python2-setuptools metapackage
Release: 1
Requires: python-setuptools
%description python2-setuptools
A meta-package to pull in python-setuptools when python2-setuptools is required.
%files python2-setuptools
%changelog
* Mon Nov 23 2015 Orion Poplawski <or...@cora.nwra.com> - 0-2
- Metapackage
* Thu Nov 19 2015 John Dulaney <jdula...@fedoraproject.org> - 1.0-1
- Initial package
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