2008/7/27 Daniel White <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > "Catalin Marinas" <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> I also use "python setup.py bdist_rpm" when releasing, I think it will >> get confused by a different prefix. > > Not being familiar with distutils, I didn't even see that use case. I use "python setup.py bdist_rpm", though passing --prefix would probably fix it. > Regardless, the instructions are incorrect and the behaviour surprising. > When I installed this in a cygwin environment, it went on to clobber > my system directories. > > Would it be more useful to have the Makefile handle the general case and > setup.py for more specialised cases, such as generating an rpm? I agree. > I've thrown some patches together that does some of this. I can tidy > these up and put them in a public repository if this sounds like a > reasonable plan of attack. Yes, it is. Please base them on my (or Karl's) latest git tree as I already merged this patch. Thanks. -- Catalin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
