Steve Dower added the comment:
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
Changes by Alexandr Normuradov anormura...@isilon.com:
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nosy: +anormuradov
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http://bugs.python.org/issue20337
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Vitaly Isaev added the comment:
I confirm the urgent need in this feature.
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nosy: +vitalyisaev2
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Éric Araujo added the comment:
Can you give more information about this change?
As a new feature, it cannot go into 2.7.
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components: +Distutils -Build
nosy: +eric.araujo
type: - enhancement
versions: +Python 3.5 -Python 2.7
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KV added the comment:
Configuration files in RPMs can have several attributes, one important one is
'noreplace' (i.e., %config(noreplace) file-name). This allows for
configuration files that have been changed after the RPM has been installed to
not be over-written when the RPM is updated --
New submission from KV:
bdist_rpm should support handling %config(noreplace) to help with packaging.
Patch attached.
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components: Build
files: bdist_rpm-add-config-file.diff
keywords: patch
messages: 208715
nosy: kv
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: bdist_rpm
