rpm-py-installer is to enable the RPM Python binding in any Python environment.
The environment is non-system Python, a source compiled Python, a Python on virtualenv, pyenv environment and etc.
It installs same version's Python binding with the system RPM safely.
rpm-py-installer provides several ways to install.
$ rpm --version
RPM version 4.13.0.1
$ which python
/path/to/python
$ which pip
/path/to/pip_on_the_python
$ pip list
Package Version
---------- -------
pip 9.0.1
setuptools 28.8.0
$ pip install rpm-py-installer
rpm-python or rpm package for new version is installed with rpm-py-installer package.
$ pip list
Package Version
---------------- --------
pip 9.0.1
rpm-py-installer 0.4.0
rpm-python 4.13.0.1 <= Same version with the system RPM's one.
setuptools 28.8.0
$ python -c "import rpm; print(rpm.__version__)"
4.13.0.1
Add rpm-py-installer to your package's setup.py install_requires.
$ pwd
/path/to/your_project
$ vi setup.py
...
setup(
...
install_requires=[
...
# This installs the rpm package.
'rpm-py-installer',
...
],
...
)
...
Upload your package to PyPI.
And run pip install.
$ pip install your_package
Note that if you would provide your project as a RPM package, please consider to apply a conditional import to your setup.py not to provide rpm-py-installer in the environment. Refer the setup.py sample and Users Guide FAQ Q6.
If you want to install the Python binding without rpm-py-installer package.
$ pip list
Package Version
---------- -------
pip 9.0.1
setuptools 28.8.0
$ python -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junaruga/rpm-py-installer/master/install.py)"
$ pip list
Package Version
---------------- --------
pip 9.0.1
rpm-python 4.13.0.1 <= Same version with the system RPM's one.
setuptools 28.8.0
See Users Guide.
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