From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.5 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020809 Description of problem: The RH8.0 release, the "-ba" and similar build options have been moved out of the "rpm" command into the "rpmbuild" command only. The distutils code for the "bdist_rpm" sub-command fails because of this. I have put up patch #619493 at sourceforge.net which fixes this issue. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Download and unpack a Distutils-packaged Python module (for example: ftp://ftp.tummy.com/pub/tummy/Python/python-chap/python-chap-1.13.tar.gz) 2. Run "python setup.py bdist_rpm" Actual Results: Fails to produce binary/source RPMs with the results: [...] building RPMs rpm -ba --define _topdir /tmp/python-chap-1.13/build/bdist.linux-i686/rpm --clean build/bdist.linux-i686/rpm/SPECS/python-chap.spec -ba: unknown option error: command 'rpm' failed with exit status 1 Expected Results: Should produce binary and/or source RPMs Additional info:
Fixed in python 2.2.2, check out ftp://people.redhat.com/misa/fixes/python
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