[issue1472] setup.py bdist_rpm fails due to missing optimized files

[Jeremy Whitlock]

New submission from Jeremy Whitlock <jcscoobyrs at gmail.com>:

While working on building some Mercurial RPMs for RHEL/CentOS, I ran across an
issue with how the "python setup.py bdist_rpm" works.  Basically, I tried to run
"python setup.py bdist_rpm" and I kept getting an error:

error: command 'rpmbuild' failed with exit status 1

This error really was due to a nested error higher up in the output of the
bdist_rpm command:

Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found

After googling around, I found a known bug in the Red Hat Bugzilla database:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=198877

I also found a lot of suggestions to create a setup.cfg with the following in it:

[install]
optimize = 1

The problem is that the setup.cfg had no affect on the issue.  I think this is
due to the Mercurial setup.py overriding the options in its setup() call.  Upon
testing this, and proving my theory, I have a patch that will fix this.

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files: fix_bdist_rpm.patch.txt
messages: 8406
nosy: jcscoobyrs
priority: bug
status: unread
title: setup.py bdist_rpm fails due to missing optimized files

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