[issue5474] distutils produces invalid RPM packages of prerelease python packages

Éric Araujo added the comment: Given the age of this, the status of distutils and the existence of py2rpm, I am closing it. -- resolution: -> wont fix stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue5474] distutils produces invalid RPM packages of prerelease python packages

Éric Araujo added the comment: With the new Mercurial repositories and adapted workflow, patches should apply to a clone of the 3.1 branch. If you could also remove outdated or superseded patches from this issue (or give their names if you can’t remove them), it would help reviewing. Thanks

[issue5474] distutils produces invalid RPM packages of prerelease python packages

Rudd-O added the comment: about python trunk... gimme some time to port them incrementally to all popular stable pythons first, then to trunk. will be glad to do this. Now, by trunk, do you mean python 3.x? -- ___ Python tracker

[issue5474] distutils produces invalid RPM packages of prerelease python packages

Tarek Ziadé added the comment: Please write your patches against the trunk. I'll start to look at them after Pycon. Regards -- versions: +Python 2.7, Python 3.1 -Python 2.4 ___ Python tracker __

[issue5474] distutils produces invalid RPM packages of prerelease python packages

Rudd-O added the comment: I am considering some changes in the auto-dependency part of the patch. Keep tuned. -- ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue5474] distutils produces invalid RPM packages of prerelease python packages

Rudd-O added the comment: brown paper bug in the last lexic patch -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file13316/python-2.4-distutils-bdist_rpm-rpmversion-lexicalorder.patch ___ Python tracker ___

[issue5474] distutils produces invalid RPM packages of prerelease python packages

Rudd-O added the comment: This patch autodetects dependencies based on the earlier patch and egg metadata, if setuptools is importable. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file13314/python-2.4-distutils-bdist_rpm-autodeps.patch ___ Python tracker

[issue5474] distutils produces invalid RPM packages of prerelease python packages

Rudd-O added the comment: A better patch -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file13313/python-2.4-distutils-bdist_rpm-rpmversion-lexicalorder.patch ___ Python tracker ___

[issue5474] distutils produces invalid RPM packages of prerelease python packages

Rudd-O added the comment: the newest svnversions patch is to handle the case of people who want to build svn checkouts (usually versionnumbered by dev or dev-rXXXYYZZ). it overrides the release to be zero so they never upgrade alpha, beta packages. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.or

[issue5474] distutils produces invalid RPM packages of prerelease python packages

Changes by Rudd-O : Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file13301/python-2.4-distutils-bdist-rpm.patch (prerequisite for the patch I wrote which is the prereleaseversion.patch) ___ Python tracker __

[issue5474] distutils produces invalid RPM packages of prerelease python packages

Rudd-O added the comment: Heads up: The fix requires a patch (distributed with the python 2.4.x RPM in CentOS) to be applied first. I am attaching said patch so you can apply the fix. -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue5474] distutils produces invalid RPM packages of prerelease python packages

New submission from Rudd-O : Description of problem: Building pre-release python distutils packages with python setup.py bdist_rpm works, but the version number is "RPM-higher" than the official release package that is released later. This constitutes a problem because many of the components in