Skip rpmrebuild

[a-lyupa]

@ilya-palachev ,
Is it ok to skip rpmrebuild stage?
What is the correct way to build and install it? I got rpmrebuild.tar with 0 byte size.
Why yum is set instead of zypp with --disable-rpm-patching option enabled?

[ilya-palachev]

Unfortunately, I don't remember the details about rpmrebuild clearly.

Is it ok to skip rpmrebuild stage?

If the use case is at used to be, no.

What is the correct way to build and install it?

Doesn't we describe it in the setup.py script?

I got rpmrebuild.tar with 0 byte size.

Could you provide more details, with what conditions, with what use case do you get rpmrebuild.tar with 0 byte size. Does it happen during combirepo Deb package building? Or at combirepo runtime?

Why yum is set instead of zypp with --disable-rpm-patching option enabled?

If I recall correctly, yum is more stable that zypp. I've tried them both, but due to the C++-to-python bindings, zypp is very hard to debug, so I preferred yum since it was the only package manager from these two, that I succeeded to make work in the use case.

[a-lyupa]

Doesn't we describe it in the setup.py script?
Could you provide more details, with what conditions, with what use case do you get rpmrebuild.tar with 0 byte size. Does it happen during combirepo Deb package building? Or at combirepo runtime?

I executed
`$ python -m pip install stdeb --user
$ ./setup.py sdist
$ ./setup.py --command-packages=stdeb.command bdist_deb
After that it can be installed as follows:

$ sudo dpkg -i deb_dist/combirepo_*.deb`

as it is described in README.

[ilya-palachev]

Could you check that rpmrebuild submodule has been initialized? It can be done via git submodules update or smth. like that. Usual git clone doesn't clones submodules.

[a-lyupa]

On my host rpmrebuild sources appear when I execute
git submodule init git submodule update

Why rpmrebuild is located on git.code.sf.net?

[submodule "combirepo/rpmrebuild"]
path = rpmrebuild
url = https://git.code.sf.net/p/rpmrebuild/git
revision = .

[ilya-palachev]

Did it help?

Why rpmrebuild is located on git.code.sf.net?

For the time when it we added it, it was the main repo of that tool.