Re: Packaging a Python app?

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 00:22:22 +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger
<joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 05:37:53PM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> >     DEPENDS+=       py-paramiko>=1.6:../../security/py-paramiko
>                       ^^ ${PYPKGPREFIX} is what you want.
> 
> > (As a secondary matter, the programs start with 
> > 
> >     #!/usr/bin/env python
> > 
> > What is the proper invocation here?)
> 
> See lang/python/application.mk.
> 
Thanks.

Where is any of this documented?  The more I try to create packages, the
more I run up against undocumented magic.  Even as a user, this occurs --
I have to have MKTTINTERP=yes for one package, SUSE_PREFER=10.0 for
another, PYTHON_VERSION_DEFAULT=24, etc.


                --Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb