python - app packaging - wrapper script ?

David Timms dtimms at iinet.net.au
Wed Jun 11 14:45:22 UTC 2008


Neal Becker wrote:
> David Timms wrote:
> 
> #! /usr/bin/python
> print hello
> 
> This will run for 'normal user' using just 'script name' if made executable.
I'm at least past "hello world".

The Fedora rpm packaging requirements for python tell me to put the 
apps' bits a in subdir of the site-packages folder:
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pyvnc2swf  [on 32 bit]
/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/pyvnc2swf  [on 64 bit]

However, an app in that location is not on the path, and hence can't be 
invoked with just 'vnc2swf', 'vnc2swf.py'.

Seems the procedure to follow is to make a wrapper script and install it 
into /usr/bin, that invokes vnc2swf.py which will be in one of the above 
two folders, dependent on the machine architecture.

I have uploaded that to:
http://members.iinet.net.au/~timmsy/pyvnc2swf/vnc2swf.py

Is that clearer ?




More information about the fedora-list mailing list