From df345c0ca098b1ab33d528fc731582274b26e152 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jonathan Hartley Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 11:21:43 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] add mention of bdist_rpm --- docs/shipping/packaging.rst | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/shipping/packaging.rst b/docs/shipping/packaging.rst index 40486c1..18d8fd4 100644 --- a/docs/shipping/packaging.rst +++ b/docs/shipping/packaging.rst @@ -151,6 +151,9 @@ makes the download and install about 2MB smaller than Also, if a distribution releases a new security update for Python, then your application will automatically start using that new version of Python. +[Producing an RPM file using the bdist_rpm command](https://docs.python.org/3/distutils/builtdist.html#creating-rpm-packages) +for use by distributions like Red Hat or SuSE is trivially easy. + However, creating and maintaining the different configurations required for each distribution's format (e.g. .deb for Debian/Ubuntu, .rpm for Red Hat/Fedora, etc) is a fair amount of work. If your code is an application that