On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 05:56:39PM -0500, Tom Lynema wrote: > Here's a few things I found out while making the rpms for TurboGears, > and a few questions that have now resulted. > > I've attached an irc log of a chat I had in #turbogears. They say that > packaging a python module as a .egg file isn't necessary. This means > that the python-Testgears spec can be, and probably should be, modified > to use the --single-version-externally-managed flag. > > TurboGears will work just fine without python-TestGears. It's just a > testing suite. Should the dependency be taken out of the TurboGears > package? Also, the people in #turbogears (specifically evelind) say > that they don't even use python-TestGears and instead have moved on to > nose (http://python.org/pypi/nose). Should I package nose or > python-TestGears or both? Ignacio packaged up TurboGears for extras[0] earlier this year, which installs it using --single-version-externally-managed. As for python-TestGears, I recently filed a bug[1] to add this as a dependency because the tg-admin tool explodes without it: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/tg-admin", line 5, in ? from pkg_resources import load_entry_point File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2356, in ? working_set.require(__requires__) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 585, in require needed = self.resolve(parse_requirements(requirements)) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 483, in resolve raise DistributionNotFound(req) # XXX put more info here pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: TestGears>=0.2 luke [0]: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/5/SRPMS/TurboGears-0.8a5-1.fc5.src.rpm [1]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=195370
