On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 6:08 AM, Ruben Kerkhof <ruben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> 2. What is the best way to bundle the python bindings? Currently I am >> getting this error when building the RPM: >>> error: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found: >>> /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rados.py >>> /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rados.pyc >>> /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rados.pyo >> However, I need to find an RPM variable that has a path to the python >> site-packages directory. automake knows this, but so far I haven't >> figured out where this information lives in RPM. >> >> This guy suggests a workaround: >> http://www.linux-archive.org/centos/171366-python-sybase-centos-5-x86_64-a.html >> But his workaround seems kind of clumsy, and in fact doesn't work for >> me on CentOS 5.5. Surely there is a standard way to refer to the >> sit-packages directory in RPM without hacks? > > There are standard macros in recent versions of Fedora and RHEL6, but > this should work: > > %if ! (0%{?fedora} > 12 || 0%{?rhel} > 5) > %{!?python_sitelib: %global python_sitelib %(%{__python} -c "from > distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print(get_python_lib())")} > %{!?python_sitearch: %global python_sitearch %(%{__python} -c "from > distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print(get_python_lib(1))")} > %endif Thanks for this workaround, Ruben. I committed it as f2e146aa86f595b9acc1829e394abcd6570ce222 > > If you add that to the top of your spec you can use %{python_sitearch} > in your %files section. > There are more tips at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Python > >> 3. How should we handle tcmalloc, if at all? Google-perftools is not >> bundled for 64 bit on CentOS. (It seems like this decision was made >> because some of the stuff in this package is buggy on 64 bit x86. >> However, tcmalloc itself is not buggy on 64 bit.). > > Is google-perftool an EPEL package? If so can you report a bug against > that package at bugzilla.redhat.com? > An option would be to split out tcmalloc into it's own rpm. Filed as https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=689630 Hopefully we'll get a tcmalloc package! cheers, Colin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
