Multiple RPM packages from one setup.py

[MikeFalowski]

Hey everyone! Not sure if this is good place for this question but is it possible to build more than one RPM package from one setup.py (eg. like in SPEC file you can define more packages like package, package-lib, package-cfg etc.)?

Unfortunately, I haven't found anything about that, only someone mentioned about few setup.py files.

[pganssle]

Are you using RPM in a generic sense or are you referring to the rpm package management software? As far as I know setuptools itself does not generate any RPM packages at all.

[MikeFalowski]

I meant rpm package management. So bdist_rpm is not a part of setuptools? I'm quite new to this.

[pganssle]

Ah, you're right, there is a bdist_rpm, I've just never had any reason to use it or think about it.

The documentation for building RPM packages is here.

[pganssle]

@MikeFalowski Did you ever find out how to do this? I think it's probably not advisable to be building more than one package per setup.py (I really dislike that setuptools does it), and I don't know the current state of rpm support in setuptools, but if you found something please let me know.

[MikeFalowski]

What I've found is that it's rather impossible to build more packages per one setup.py. There were some suggestions on the Internet to create setup.py in every package folder or to create threads and in every thread run setup.py, but I haven't tried any of those solutions.