Best Practices for Django App Packaging

[John.Florian at dart.biz]

> On 01/21/2014 03:45 PM, John.Florian at dart.biz wrote:
> > While I've been packaging Python apps for Fedora for a long time, I'm 
a
> > complete novice to Django.  I've just completed my first app (using 
the
> > built-in development server) and now want to get it packaged.  Thus 
far
> > I've followed my normal model of using setuptools so that everything
> > very cleanly lands in /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/my_package.  My
> > Django app is under there, along with other related Python modules 
that
> > are used independently of the Django app.
> > 
> > I'm not finding any docs in the Fedora package guidelines and am 
unaware
> > of existing packages that might serve as excellent examples.  My web
> > searches are turning up lots, but nothing much specific to Fedora.
> > 
> > At the moment, I'm particularly struggling with how to make my
> > /etc/httpd/conf.d/myapp.conf point to my
> > /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/my_package/my_site/wsgi.py in a good
> > generic RPM spec sense.  I'd rather not hard-code the Python version 
in
> > myapp.conf.
> > 
> > Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.
> > 
> If you want an exampple, please look at openstack-dashboard:
> [1] is the config file to be dropped at /etc/httpd/conf.d (for
> httpd-2.2) or [2] for httpd-2.4
> 
> The spec is here[3] for reference.
> 
> HTH,
> Matthias
> 
> 
> [1]
> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/python-django-horizon.git/tree/
> openstack-dashboard.conf
> [2]
> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/python-django-horizon.git/tree/
> openstack-dashboard-httpd-2.4.conf
> [3]
> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/python-django-horizon.git/tree/
> python-django-horizon.spec

Thanks Matthias!  That's quite a complicated example, although I can see 
there's much I can learn from it.  Unfortunately, it's not the ideal 
example because it moves everything that setup.py builds into 
/usr/share/openstack-dashboard.  I need to keep stuff under 
/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages so that the other, non-Django, parts 
continue to work as expected.  (I suppose I could just relocate the 
Django-parts of the build, but sounds like it will break more things that 
it will help.)

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John Florian
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