Python Eggs & distutils in Rawhide

Zoltan Kota z.kota at gmx.net
Tue Jan 15 15:07:44 UTC 2008


On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:

> Just a small heads up for those of you packaging python modules.
> python-2.5.1-18, just built for rawhide, has reverted a small patch we
> were carrying that disabled generation of egg-info for modules created
> by distutils.  That means that python modules built against rawhide will
> now create an extra file of metadata in the python_sitelib and
> python_sitearch directories.  You'll need to include those in your
> %files section if it's not already pulled in via a wildcard.

How is it decided where the egg-info will be installed: in the 
python_sitelib or python_sitearch? If my package installs files in 
python_sitearch, can I expect to have the egg-info there as well? 
Sorry for the stupid question!

Zoltan




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