[issue809163] Can't add files with spaces under bdist_rpm

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 y

[issue809163] Can't add files with spaces under bdist_rpm

Jason R. Coombs added the comment: I decided to test my proposition. It seems that simply specifying / for %files leads to the RPM including parent directories. Here's the output I get when running my test with the sed workaround: $ rpm -q -filesbypkg -p dist/issue21153-package-0.0.0-1.noarch.

[issue809163] Can't add files with spaces under bdist_rpm

Jason R. Coombs added the comment: In issue21153, I explored this problem as well, before being aware of this issue. I had searched for bdist_rpm. I've since confirmed that the sed approach is viable. For example, the following works around the issue by overriding the install_script with the s