New submission from Sean Carolan:
I'm attempting to build a Python 2.7.3 RPM but the build command from the
documentation fails. My platform is RHEL 5.9, x86_64
http://docs.python.org/2/distutils/builtdist.html#creating-rpm-packages
Steps to reproduce:
1. Download latest Python tarball
Sean Carolan added the comment:
Éric Araujo, if that is the case then why does it build what looks like a
*.spec file for Python itself?
[scarolan@titania:~/Python-2.7.3]$ head -10
./build/bdist.linux-x86_64/rpm/SPECS/Python.spec
%define name Python
%define version 2.7.3
%define
Sean Carolan added the comment:
Ok, thanks for clearing that up. Maybe the documentation could be updated to
explicitly state this to avoid confusion, eg:
NOTE: You cannot use setup.py to build a Python RPM. It is only for building
Python modules
