[Distutils] SOLVED: bdist_rpm and pre-release python packages / eggs (was: pre-release versioning problems with sdist, bdist_rpm, bdist_debian)

[Gerry Reno]

Manuel,
  Here's what I get with this patch:
$ python test2.py rewrite 3.3beta1 4333
3.3beta1-4333           3.3-0.4333.beta1
$ python test2.py rewrite 3.3rc1 4333
3.3rc1-4333             3.3-0.4333.rc1

It is REWRITING the strings when we don't want them rewritten.  And that 
was the point about putting this in an extension called by a commandline 
arg.   Instead of going through all these callesthenics writing obscure 
code in bdist_rpm.py just write your simpler code into an override 
module and call it via a commandline option.   That way people who work 
on bdist_rpm in the future don't have to decipher all this 
Fedora-specific code.  Why do you resist doing it this way?  Why do you 
feel you have the right to come in and take over bdist_rpm with 
Fedora-specific modifications?


Regards,
Gerry