Question

Attempting to build Python Selenium noarch rpm from downloaded selenium-2.20.0.tar.gz
All necessary Python requirements are installed and working, using command:

python setup.py bdist --format=rpm

RPMBuild fails with error message:

Arch dependent binaries in noarch package
error: command 'rpmbuild' failed with exit status 1

Have tried following the suggestion of adding an additiional %define to the selenium.SPEC file, found under build/bdist.linux-i686/rpm/SPECS/selenium.spec

%define _binaries_in_noarch_packages_terminate_build 0

Unfortunately when i re-run the RPM build, the change is not picked up and the contents of the SPEC file after the build seem to have re-verted as the newly added %define is no longer present?!

Any suggestions welcome please..

Answer 1

Changes to selenium.spec weren’t persisting as the spec file is automatically generated from content mostly from within setup.py

Two solutions were found:

1) Download most recent version of selenium-2.20.0.tar.gz from http://pypi.python.org/pypi/selenium/ to target machine, tar extract and run:

python setup.py install

2) Install python pip, then use pip to dowload and install the latest selenium in an automated fashion with the command:

pip install -U selenium

As yet i have not found the exact content that can be added to setup.py that will add the necessary RPM build define to the selenium.spec file for creating an installation RPM..