[tahoe-dev] [tahoe-lafs] #1168: make setup.py more easily patchable by OS packagers

[Greg Troxel]

"tahoe-lafs" <trac at tahoe-lafs.org> writes:

> #1168: make setup.py more easily patchable by OS packagers
> ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------
>  Reporter:  davidsarah                 |           Owner:  somebody 
>      Type:  defect                     |          Status:  new      
>  Priority:  major                      |       Milestone:  undecided
> Component:  packaging                  |         Version:  1.8β     
>  Keywords:  install setuptools debian  |   Launchpad Bug:           
> ---------------------------------------+------------------------------------
>  Packaging Tahoe-LAFS for OS distributions (e.g. Debian or Ubuntu)
>  currently requires that [source:setup.py] be patched, so that setuptools
>  doesn't try to satisfy Tahoe's dependencies by downloading eggs or by
>  deciding to use a different version of the dependency than would be
>  provided by an OS package.

[not registered on trac yet, so here]

From the pkgsrc point of view, I also would like to see this.
Basically, I want to tell the build system: if anything you want isn't
*already* provided, just fail and tell me.

I'd like to see a switch to setup.py to avoid even a patch, but
David-Sarah's approach, providing a patch target with relatively
unchanging context, gets us 98% of the way there.
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 194 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/attachments/20100811/49dc7f6a/attachment.pgp>