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[Mark McLoughlin <markmc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Pete,

On Thu, 2012-05-31 at 17:48 -0600, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> Hi, Monty:
> 
> The python-swiftclient has something that I believe you added:
> 
> [zaitcev@lembas python-swiftclient-tip]$ git log swiftclient/openstack/__init__.py 
> commit 7df012329f0b22e19f878cee2602407cb23042ef
> Author: Monty Taylor <mordred@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Wed May 16 17:30:46 2012 -0400
> 
>     Add openstack project infrastructure.
> 
> Now, I am wondering, why is it necessary to keep this inside the
> swiftclient/ directory?
> 
> My problem is that if I do nothing too crazy, the following RPM
> .spec packages the aforementioned directory, too:
> 
> %{python_sitelib}/swiftclient
> 
> For now I resorted to running this after python setup.py install:
> 
> rm -r %{buildroot}%{python_sitelib}/swiftclient/openstack
> 
> Still... As an experiement, I moved the openstack/ one level up,
> changed swiftclient.openstack.common to openstack.common in setup.py,
> and everything seems to be working.

It's not clear what problem you're seeing, but projects are intended to
include openstack-common in this way. See the "Incubation" section here:

  http://wiki.openstack.org/CommonLibrary

Cheers,
Mark.