Introducing pyp2rpm - A python package to rpm specfile convertor

[Bohuslav Kabrda]

----- Original Message -----
> On 05/23/2012 04:30 PM, Bohuslav Kabrda wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> On 23/05/12 08:16, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> >>> How does this compare to Tarek Ziade's existing pypi2rpm project?
> >>>
> >>> From a quick look, the main difference appears to be that pyp2rpm
> >>> creates a spec file only, while pypi2rpm creates the RPM
> >>> directly.
> >> Pyp2rpm supports a packager to create an initial spec.
> >> Using pypi2rpm there's IMHO no way to get produced rpms into
> >> fedora.
> >> (because of missing srpm)
> >>
> >> If you don't care about that, I guess, pypi2rpm will be good
> >> enough.
> >>
> > 
> > Yes, it is exactly as Matthias says.
> > 
> > pyp2rpm is a tool for packager, it creates an rpm specfile, which
> > is prefilled with the automatically extractable data.
> > pypi2rpm is a tool for user who wants to create binary rpms, but it
> > can't produce specfile nor srpm in any form.
> 
> Thanks, that makes sense - I hadn't really looked closely at pypi2rpm
> until today (it had only been on my "learn more about this" list) so
> I
> hadn't noticed the limitation. I'd previously tried using py2pack to
> create SPEC files, and they required a lot of subsequent tweaking to
> bring them up to something I considered acceptable (and that wasn't
> even
> trying to get them up to full Fedora packaging standards).
> 
> Perhaps having "spec" or "srpm" in the name would make the difference
> more obvious?
> 
> Regarding pyp2rpm itself, running "pip install pyp2rpm" (or
> "easy_install pyp2rpm") on my Fedora 16 workstation gives me a
> traceback
> with "RuntimeError: That compression method is not supported".
> 

Hmm, that is really strange, this works for me on F17. Could it be that it depends on Python version or tar version it was created with? I created the package on F17.

> Regards,
> Nick.
> 
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> Nick Coghlan
> Red Hat Infrastructure Engineering & Development, Brisbane
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Regards,
Bohuslav "Slavek" Kabrda.