python3 setup.py bdist --format=rpm

[Hassan Nael]

Hi,

reading the instructions on https://docs.python.org/3.2/distutils/builtdist.html, it would appear that you can build an rpm for python version 3 for Linux. I have setup an lxc container on my ubuntu 15.04 running Centos 5.11 (Target servers are running redhat 5). when running /usr/local/bin/python3 setup.py bdist --format=rpm or bdist_rpm I get the below error message.

Looking at setup.py is not python3 so I tried to do 2to3 -w setup.py and I have gone further because the original error was (with open(_BUILDDIR_COOKIE, "wb") as f:
            ^
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writing 'build/bdist.linux-x86_64/rpm/SPECS/Python.spec'
running sdist
running check
warning: sdist: manifest template 'MANIFEST.in' does not exist (using default file list)

writing manifest file 'MANIFEST'
making hard links in Python-3.2.6...
'_struct.c' not a regular file -- skipping
hard linking setup.py.bak -> Python-3.2.6
Creating tar archive
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/tarfile.py", line 419, in __init__
    import zlib
ImportError: No module named zlib

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py.bak", line 1944, in <module>
    main()
  File "setup.py.bak", line 1939, in main
    "Tools/scripts/2to3"]
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/distutils/core.py", line 148, in setup
    dist.run_commands()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/distutils/dist.py", line 917, in run_commands
    self.run_command(cmd)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/distutils/dist.py", line 936, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/distutils/command/bdist.py", line 130, in run
    self.run_command(cmd_name)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/distutils/cmd.py", line 313, in run_command
    self.distribution.run_command(command)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/distutils/dist.py", line 936, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/distutils/command/bdist_rpm.py", line 296, in run
    self.run_command('sdist')
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/distutils/cmd.py", line 313, in run_command
    self.distribution.run_command(command)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/distutils/dist.py", line 936, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/distutils/command/sdist.py", line 160, in run
    self.make_distribution()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/distutils/command/sdist.py", line 447, in make_distribution
    file = self.make_archive(base_name, fmt, base_dir=base_dir)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/distutils/cmd.py", line 370, in make_archive
    dry_run=self.dry_run)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/distutils/archive_util.py", line 178, in make_archive
    filename = func(base_name, base_dir, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/distutils/archive_util.py", line 52, in make_tarball
    tar = tarfile.open(archive_name, 'w|%s' % tar_compression[compress])
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/tarfile.py", line 1769, in open
    stream = _Stream(name, filemode, comptype, fileobj, bufsize)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/tarfile.py", line 421, in __init__
    raise CompressionError("zlib module is not available")
tarfile.CompressionError: zlib module is not available