python setup.py bdist_rpm fails

[jpellerin]

What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. tar -zxvf nose-0.10.1.tar.gz
2. cd nose-0.10.1
3. python setup.py bdist_rpm

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

Expected: rpm built successfully.
Observed:

< ... >
Executing(%doc): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.68927

• umask 022
• cd /root/packages/BUILD/nose-0.10.1/build/bdist.linux-x86_64/rpm/BUILD
• cd nose-0.10.1
• DOCDIR=/var/tmp/nose-0.10.1-1-buildroot/usr/share/doc/nose-0.10.1
• export DOCDIR
• rm -rf /var/tmp/nose-0.10.1-1-buildroot/usr/share/doc/nose-0.10.1
• /bin/mkdir -p /var/tmp/nose-0.10.1-1-buildroot/usr/share/doc/nose-0.10.1
• cp -pr man/man1/nosetests.1 README.txt
  /var/tmp/nose-0.10.1-1-buildroot/usr/share/doc/nose-0.10.1
  cp: cannot stat `man/man1/nosetests.1': No such file or directory
  error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.68927 (%doc)

RPM build errors:
Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.68927 (%doc)
error: command 'rpmbuild' failed with exit status 1

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
nose-0.10.1, CentOS 5.0 64-bit

Please provide any additional information below.

The following patch fixes it for me:

*** setup.cfg.bak 2008-01-14 17:34:12.000000000 -0800
--- setup.cfg 2008-01-14 17:34:35.000000000 -0800

---

*** 1,5 ****
[bdist_rpm]
! doc_files = man/man1/nosetests.1

[egg_info]
tag_build =
--- 1,5 ----
[bdist_rpm]
! doc_files = README.txt

[egg_info]
tag_build =

Google Code Info:
Issue #: 149
Author: khomenko...@gtempaccount.com
Created On: 2008-01-15T01:43:40.000Z
Closed On: 2008-01-15T15:10:54.000Z

[jpellerin]

There doesn't seem to be any way to get this to work correctly. The error you've
reported is a duplicate of #127, which itself is due to a fix to an earlier bdist_rpm
build error, #96. It seems that some rpm-using systems expect the man file to be
gzipped and some don't, and I don't know of any way to figure out on a given system
what it expects.

Closing as a duplicate of #127.

Google Code Info:
Author: jpelle...@gmail.com
Created On: 2008-01-15T15:10:54.000Z