[Zope] Re: Questions about the installer, packaging

[Tres Seaver]

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Timothy Selivanow wrote:
> I'm investigating the creation of an RPM for Fedora, but I'd like to get
> some info before I dive too deeply...
> 
> 1) It seems like the packaging list is defunct, or at least hasn't had
> anything but SPAM since 2003.  Is there an appropriate list to discuss
> packaging issues (zope-dev perhaps)?
> 
> 2) Is there any documentation on the installer options to help with
> placing things in the "correct" distro specific directories?

Under the covers, the Zope makefile is using the distutils
infrastructure, via its 'setup.py' script.  You can see the arguments
used by the two commands via::

 $ /path/to/python setup.py build --help

and::

 $ /path/to/python setup.py install --help


Tres.
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