bdist_rpm causes traceback looking for a non-existant file

[ipython]

Original Launchpad bug 483918: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ipython/+bug/483918
Reported by: riggs (Benjamin Riggs).

[ipython-0.10]$ python2.6 -i setup.py bdist_rpm
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 146, in 
    [ target_update(*t) for t in to_update ]
  File "/var/tmp/BUILD/ipython-0.10/IPython/genutils.py", line 605, in target_update
    if target_outdated(target,deps):
  File "/var/tmp/BUILD/ipython-0.10/IPython/genutils.py", line 589, in target_outdated
    dep_time = os.path.getmtime(dep)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/genericpath.py", line 54, in getmtime
    return os.stat(filename).st_mtime
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'docs/man/ipcluster.1'
...
(Pdb) to_update
[('docs/man/ipcluster.1.gz', ['docs/man/ipcluster.1'], 'cd docs/man && gzip -9c ipcluster.1 > ipcluster.1.gz'), ('docs/man/ipcontroller.1.gz', ['docs/man/ipcontroller.1'], 'cd docs/man && gzip -9c ipcontroller.1 > ipcontroller.1.gz'), ('docs/man/ipengine.1.gz', ['docs/man/ipengine.1'], 'cd docs/man && gzip -9c ipengine.1 > ipengine.1.gz'), ('docs/man/ipython.1.gz', ['docs/man/ipython.1'], 'cd docs/man && gzip -9c ipython.1 > ipython.1.gz'), ('docs/man/ipython-wx.1.gz', ['docs/man/ipython-wx.1'], 'cd docs/man && gzip -9c ipython-wx.1 > ipython-wx.1.gz'), ('docs/man/ipythonx.1.gz', ['docs/man/ipythonx.1'], 'cd docs/man && gzip -9c ipythonx.1 > ipythonx.1.gz'), ('docs/man/irunner.1.gz', ['docs/man/irunner.1'], 'cd docs/man && gzip -9c irunner.1 > irunner.1.gz'), ('docs/man/pycolor.1.gz', ['docs/man/pycolor.1'], 'cd docs/man && gzip -9c pycolor.1 > pycolor.1.gz')]
...
[ipython-0.10]$ ls -A docs/man/
ipcluster.1.gz  ipcontroller.1.gz  ipengine.1.gz  ipython.1.gz  ipython-wx.1.gz  ipythonx.1.gz  irunner.1.gz  pycolor.1.gz

It's looking for the non-gz'd versions of the files which don't exist in the tarball ipython-0.10.tar.gz which I downloaded today.

I do see there is a FIXME in setup.py saying something is disabled, but it appears to be referencing the generation of docs from a tex file.

I'm running this on a CentOS 5 install with python 2.6.2 installed along side the 'native' 2.4.3, attempting to get a source rpm so I can customize and distribute it.

[fperez]

Comment posted on the original LP bug by Rodrigo Lopez

I am experiencing the same issue (Centos 5.1 x64, using Python 2.5.2 and
GCC 4.4.3), but bypassing this issue as follows:

   tar xzvf ipython-0.10.tar.gz
   cd ipython-0.10/
   gzip -d docs/man/*
   python2.5 setup.py bdist_rpm

The rpmbuild still fails though with the following error:

   Traceback (most recent call last):
     File "setup.py", line 35, in 
       from setupbase import (
   ImportError: No module named setupbase

Running "python2.5 setup.py install" works, but to get ipython running
without errors I still have to do the following first:

   mkdir -p /root/.ipython/
   touch /root/.ipython/ipythonrc

[tomspur]

rpmbuild fails here , because of an undefined option:

+ python setup.py install --single-version-externally-managed -O1 --root=/home/tom/programming/repositories/github/ipython.git/build/bdist.linux-x86_64/rpm/BUILDROOT/ipython-0.11.alpha1.git-1.x86_64 --record=INSTALLED_FILES

BUILDING IPYTHON
python: 2.6.4 (r264:75706, Apr 1 2010, 02:55:51) [GCC
4.4.3 20100226 (Red Hat 4.4.3-8)]
platform: linux2

OPTIONAL DEPENDENCIES
Zope.Interface: yes
Twisted: 8.2.0
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/foolscap/banana.py:2: DeprecationWarning: the sets module is deprecated
import struct, sets, time
Foolscap: 0.4.2
OpenSSL: 0.9
sphinx: 0.6.6
pygments: 1.3.1
nose: 0.11.1
pexpect: 2.3
usage: setup.py [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...]
or: setup.py --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...]
or: setup.py --help-commands
or: setup.py cmd --help

error: option --single-version-externally-managed not recognized

It's Python 2.6.4 and according to:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2006-July/006466.html

... this seems to be a distutils problem. When building a proper package for fedora it's just "python setup.py build" and "python setup.py install -O1 --skip-build --root %{buildroot}".

[fperez]

We have no hope of overriding distutils bugs, closing on our end. Thanks tomspur for the info!