Found solution, it was rather easy - just put a .pth in the "official"
site-packages containing the full path to the directory being added.
On 03/04/2017 09:55 AM, Alice Wonder wrote:
> I want to create RPM spec file that lets the user build the RPM with an
> alternate prefix - e.g.
>
> rpmbuild -D '_prefix /opt/whatever' -bb package.spec
>
> That results in in the python files being placed in
>
> /opt/whatever/lib/pythonN/site-packages and
> /opt/whatever/%{_lib}/pythonN/site-packages
>
> Those directories are outside of the default python search path.
>
> I could leave it up to the user to add them, but its nice when
> installing a package just works (hence why we can put files in
> /etc/ld.so.conf.d for example) without the user needing to fuss too much.
>
> When the user builds with a different prefix, there likely will be
> several different packages that put python stuff in that prefix, so a
> meta package they require that adds to the search path is what I am
> thinking, that both adds to the python when installed and removes it
> from the python search path when removed.
>
> On 03/04/2017 09:31 AM, Andrew Holway wrote:
>> So you want to build something independent of the system python? Is
>> virtualenv and / or anaconda interesting here?
>>
>> On 4 March 2017 at 17:36, Alice Wonder <alice at domblogger.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Working on a project to create clean spec files for libbitcoin for
>>> CentOS
>>> 7 (and eventually I want them to work in Fedora 25+ too)
>>>
>>> These spec files must work with the user defines an alternate %{_prefix}
>>> before building them.
>>>
>>> This means that python components would be installed in /opt/libbitcoin
>>> (or whatever) instead of in /usr so %{python2_sitelib} and
>>> %{python2_sitearch} no longer would apply.
>>>
>>> sys.path.append looks like the way to tell python about a new path to
>>> look
>>> for stuff, but I'm guessing there are guidelines somewhere for how
>>> that is
>>> suppose to properly done from within spec files.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately I can't find them, and search engines are getting
>>> harder and
>>> harder to use to find technical related information, always changing my
>>> query and showing me completely unrelated results.
>>>
>>> Anyway I didn't see anything in the Fedora packaging guidelines for
>>> python, that seems to be targeting a prefix of /usr
>>>
>>> Thanks for any links or suggestions.
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