Sometimes you need to convert your Python package into an RPM (perhaps for
political reasons). If you are using distutils/setuptools, then this
is very easy after a bit of setup.
The exapmle that follows assumes a CentOS 6 box, but should work on any Fedora-like distro.
Enable EPEL
$ wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
$ sudo rpm -ivh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
Install dependencies
$ sudo yum groupinstall -y 'Development Tools'
$ sudo yum install -y fedora-packager git python-pip
Setup RPM build envirionment
$ sudo usermod -a -G mock <foo user>
$ rpmdev-setuptree
Create spec, build source tarball
$ python setup.py bdist_rpm --requires='mysql-connector-python,python-pip'
Modify spec as needed
As mentioned in the docs,
“there are many options in .spec files that don’t have corresponding options
in the setup script” so you may need to modify parts by hand. In my case,
there’s currently no RPM for sqlsoup, so I need to install it during the
post step.
# foo.spec
%prep
%setup -n %{name}-%{unmangled_version} -n %{name}-%{unmangled_version}
%build
python setup.py build
%post
pip install sqlsoup
Build RPM
$ rpmbuild -ba ./foo.spec
Install RPM
Hopefully the rpmbuild command completed successfully and all that remains is
to install the RPM.
$ sudo rpm -ivh foo-0.1.0-1.noarch.rpm