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  • Committer: Joe Julian
  • Date: 2010-01-10 02:25:31 UTC
  • mto: (4634.119.7 2.0)
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 4959.
  • Revision ID: joe@julianfamily.org-20100110022531-wqk61rsagz8xsiga
Added MANIFEST.in to allow bdist_rpm to have all the required include files and tools. bdist_rpm will still fail to build correctly on some distributions due to a disttools bug http://bugs.python.org/issue644744

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There is a bug in disttools for distributions who's rpmbuild compresses 
 
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the man pages. This causes an error building the final packages as it's 
 
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expecting bzr.1 and not finding it, but finding bzr.1.gz that's unpackaged.
 
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This bug is known to affect Fedora, RHEL, and Centos distributions.
 
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There is a preliminary patch at http://bugs.python.org/issue644744 that
 
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fixes this issue with disttools.