If you do not use Slackware Linux, you won't find much use for this program.
This program is designed to support the tool sbopkg by generating sbopkg queue file much faster than the bash script currently shipped with sbopkg.
This code uses setuptools, which is pretty standard for the python community. The command
python setup.py bdist_dumb --bdist-dir /tmp/package
when run in the same directory as this file will give similar output as this
0 ✓ flacy@flacy ~/Documents/sqg $ python setup.py bdist_dumb --bdist-dir /tmp/package
running bdist_dumb
running build
running build_py
installing to /tmp/package
running install
running install_lib
creating /tmp/package
creating /tmp/package/usr
creating /tmp/package/usr/lib64
creating /tmp/package/usr/lib64/python2.7
creating /tmp/package/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages
creating /tmp/package/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/sqg
copying build/lib/sqg/__init__.py -> /tmp/package/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/sqg
creating /tmp/package/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/sqg/utilities
copying build/lib/sqg/utilities/__init__.py -> /tmp/package/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/sqg/utilities
copying build/lib/sqg/utilities/TopologicalSortTest.py -> /tmp/package/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/sqg/utilities
copying build/lib/sqg/utilities/TopologicalSort.py -> /tmp/package/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/sqg/utilities
copying build/lib/sqg/utilities/PropertyReader.py -> /tmp/package/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/sqg/utilities
creating /tmp/package/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/sqg/scanning
copying build/lib/sqg/scanning/__init__.py -> /tmp/package/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/sqg/scanning
copying build/lib/sqg/scanning/FileLister.py -> /tmp/package/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/sqg/scanning
byte-compiling /tmp/package/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/sqg/__init__.py to __init__.pyc
byte-compiling /tmp/package/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/sqg/utilities/__init__.py to __init__.pyc
byte-compiling /tmp/package/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/sqg/utilities/TopologicalSortTest.py to TopologicalSortTest.pyc
byte-compiling /tmp/package/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/sqg/utilities/TopologicalSort.py to TopologicalSort.pyc
byte-compiling /tmp/package/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/sqg/utilities/PropertyReader.py to PropertyReader.pyc
byte-compiling /tmp/package/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/sqg/scanning/__init__.py to __init__.pyc
byte-compiling /tmp/package/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/sqg/scanning/FileLister.py to FileLister.pyc
running install_egg_info
running egg_info
writing sqg.egg-info/PKG-INFO
writing top-level names to sqg.egg-info/top_level.txt
writing dependency_links to sqg.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
writing entry points to sqg.egg-info/entry_points.txt
writing sqg.egg-info/PKG-INFO
writing top-level names to sqg.egg-info/top_level.txt
writing dependency_links to sqg.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
writing entry points to sqg.egg-info/entry_points.txt
reading manifest file 'sqg.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
writing manifest file 'sqg.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
Copying sqg.egg-info to /tmp/package/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/sqg-1.0-py2.7.egg-info
running install_scripts
Installing sqg script to /tmp/package/usr/bin
Creating tar archive
removing '/tmp/package' (and everything under it)
0 ✓ flacy@flacy ~/Documents/sqg $
The contents of the resulting tar archive look like
0 ✓ flacy@flacy ~/Documents/sqg $ tar tf dist/sqg-1.0.linux-x86_64.tar.gz
./
./usr/
./usr/bin/
./usr/bin/sqg
./usr/lib64/
./usr/lib64/python2.7/
./usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/
./usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/sqg-1.0-py2.7.egg-info/
./usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/sqg-1.0-py2.7.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
./usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/sqg-1.0-py2.7.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
./usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/sqg-1.0-py2.7.egg-info/top_level.txt
./usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/sqg-1.0-py2.7.egg-info/PKG-INFO
./usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/sqg-1.0-py2.7.egg-info/entry_points.txt
./usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/sqg/
./usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/sqg/__init__.pyc
./usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/sqg/scanning/
./usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/sqg/scanning/FileLister.pyc
./usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/sqg/scanning/__init__.pyc
./usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/sqg/scanning/FileLister.py
./usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/sqg/scanning/__init__.py
./usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/sqg/utilities/
./usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/sqg/utilities/PropertyReader.pyc
./usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/sqg/utilities/TopologicalSort.pyc
./usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/sqg/utilities/TopologicalSortTest.pyc
./usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/sqg/utilities/__init__.pyc
./usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/sqg/utilities/PropertyReader.py
./usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/sqg/utilities/TopologicalSort.py
./usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/sqg/utilities/TopologicalSortTest.py
./usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/sqg/utilities/__init__.py
./usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/sqg/__init__.py
0 ✓ flacy@flacy ~/Documents/sqg $
Bare bones approach...
python setup.py bdist_dumb --bdist-dir /tmp/package
export SDIR=$(pwd)
# setup will remove /tmp/package when done.
mkdir /tmp/package
cd /tmp/package
# I run Slackware64; if you are running Slackware, x86_64 will be something else.
tar xf ${SDIR}/dist/sqg-1.0.linux-x86_64.tar.gz
# become root
su -
cd /tmp/package
makepkg /tmp/sqg-1.0-noarch-1.tgz
# I let makepkg change the ownership of the files for me.
cd /tmp
installpkg sqg-1.0-noarch-1.tgz
Note that the resulting package will not have any description in it.