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fermi-ad / acsys-python

Python module to access the Fermilab Control System
MIT License
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Generate RPM for deployment #26

Closed beauremus closed 3 years ago

beauremus commented 3 years ago

Instrumentation requests that this library be installable via yum rpm.

rneswold commented 3 years ago

Wouldn't pip or poetry install it in a more Pythonic way? If we create the .rpm, are we going to have to include stuff to make it recognized by the local Python installation?

beauremus commented 3 years ago

It appears we can simply build for the rpm target. Since it uses the same process we do for building the tarball, I assume it will unpack in the same way. Maybe that's a bad assumption?

https://docs.python.org/3/distutils/builtdist.html#creating-rpm-packages

rneswold commented 3 years ago

The acsys tarball contains things like an acsys.egg-info subdirectory. I don't know if pip has a registry or if it simply scans the directory in PYTHONPATH to see what's installed.

Would rpm users know where to unpack the tarball? Would they be able to rpm-install any dependencies?

Can we pull Bobby S. into this?

beauremus commented 3 years ago

I misunderstood this request. It has to do with acnetd and the ACSys-Erlang environment.