[issue644744] bdist_rpm fails when installing man pages

[Steve Dower]

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Distutils is now deprecated (see PEP 632) and all tagged issues are being 
closed. From now until removal, only release blocking issues will be considered 
for distutils.

If this issue does not relate to distutils, please remove the component and 
reopen it. If you believe it still requires a fix, most likely the issue should 
be re-reported at https://github.com/pypa/setuptools

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[issue644744] bdist_rpm fails when installing man pages

[Mark Lawrence]

Changes by Mark Lawrence breamore...@yahoo.co.uk:


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[issue644744] bdist_rpm fails when installing man pages

[Éric Araujo]

Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org added the comment:

Thomas, sorry if my message was short and unclear.  The freeze policy means 
that distutils does not get new features, only bug fixes.  The goal is to free 
time so that the developers (especially Tarek) can work on distutils2, the next 
generation.  When I said that “changing even internal details breaks 
third-party tools”, I was talking about tools written in Python that use 
distutils as a library; they rely on implementation details, internal functions 
and old bugs, which means distutils can’t get the changes we need to 
significantly improve the state of Python packaging.  That’s why Tarek has 
started distutils2, where compatibility can be broken to fix design mistakes 
and add disruptive new features.

Like I said, we’ve removed bdist_rpm in distutils2; it now lives as an external 
project: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pypi2rpm/0.3 .  When distutils2 is merged 
back into the standard library, bdist_rpm2 can have shorter release cycles to 
comply with policy changes on rpm-based systems.

In this case, the freeze does not apply: This bug should be fixed in distutils. 
 Can you update your patch to address Toshio’s remarks?  Thanks.

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[issue644744] bdist_rpm fails when installing man pages

[Mark Lawrence]

Mark Lawrence breamore...@yahoo.co.uk added the comment:

Anyone got a reply for msg107898?

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[issue644744] bdist_rpm fails when installing man pages

[Thomas Vander Stichele]

Thomas Vander Stichele thoma...@users.sourceforge.net added the comment:

What do you mean, it's frozen ? Without the patch you're already breaking a 
third party tool, namely rpm.  What other tool worth caring about that uses 
bdist_rpm could possibly get broken by fixing an obvious bug ? Why is it so 
impossible to simply fix a bug for a feature that people are trying to use and 
are baffled by having it not working ?

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[issue644744] bdist_rpm fails when installing man pages

[Éric Araujo]

Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org added the comment:

Distutils is frozen, since changing even internal details breaks third-party 
tools, and Distutils2 has removed RPM support, since it’s better handled by 
OS-specific tools that comply with various policies and have smaller release 
cycles. Tarek, are you closing this bug?

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[issue644744] bdist_rpm fails when installing man pages

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[issue644744] bdist_rpm fails when installing man pages

[Thomas Vander Stichele]

Thomas Vander Stichele thoma...@users.sourceforge.net added the comment:

Ok, so this patch can go in as is except for changing .gz to * ?

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[issue644744] bdist_rpm fails when installing man pages

[Thomas Vander Stichele]

Thomas Vander Stichele thoma...@users.sourceforge.net added the comment:

Attaching a reworked patch of the patch attached in
http://bugs.python.org/issue1169193

This worked for me on f-11, with python 2.6

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Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file15383/distutils.bdist_rpm.patch

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[issue644744] bdist_rpm fails when installing man pages

[Tarek Ziadé]

Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com added the comment:

I'd rather see sed called from within Distutils. But I am not sure how
to handle it after install has been called.

Do you know if sed is *always* present on a fresh Fedora ?

(I am nosying Toshio as well)

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[issue644744] bdist_rpm fails when installing man pages

[Toshio Kuratomi]

Toshio Kuratomi a.bad...@gmail.com added the comment:

sed is one of the programs we assume is always present when we build
packages in Fedora which is probably also what is wanted here.  (A
default install of Fedora will include sed but someone might be able to
create a minimal install that did not include it.) Note that within
Fedora we usually use a wildcard with man pages.  For example::

  %{_mandir}/man1/foo.1*

I'd suggest doing this rather than hardcoding .gz.  Automatic
compression of manpages could be disabled on other distros, set to
bzip2, compress, or xz instead.  Wildcarding the suffix will catch all
of these cases and be more future-proof.

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[issue644744] bdist_rpm fails when installing man pages

[Thomas Vander Stichele]

Thomas Vander Stichele thoma...@users.sourceforge.net added the comment:

Hi Toshio,

I'd probably also go for the wildcarding, but you'd still need to
'change' the INSTALLED_FILES file to do so, so you'd still use the same
mechanism.

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[issue644744] bdist_rpm fails when installing man pages

[Toshio Kuratomi]

Toshio Kuratomi a.bad...@gmail.com added the comment:

Agreed.  The substitution is still needed.

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[issue644744] bdist_rpm fails when installing man pages

[Akira Kitada]

Akira Kitada akit...@gmail.com added the comment:

Duplicate of issue1169193

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