Modified version of a patch from Jeremy Kloth, to make .get_outputs()

produce a list of unique filenames:
    "While attempting to build an RPM using distutils on Python 2.0,
    rpm complained about duplicate files.  The following patch fixed
    that problem.

diff --git a/Lib/distutils/command/install.py b/Lib/distutils/command/install.py
index 806da01afa4f1575ef645fc7f15a9a53da69f183..40e00705d3a5a0ba313e051b598a1a80e2fe5d07 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/distutils/command/install.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/command/install.py
@@ -530,7 +530,11 @@ class install (Command):
         outputs = []
         for cmd_name in self.get_sub_commands():
             cmd = self.get_finalized_command(cmd_name)
-            outputs.extend(cmd.get_outputs())
+            # Add the contents of cmd.get_outputs(), ensuring
+            # that outputs doesn't contain duplicate entries
+            for filename in cmd.get_outputs():
+                if filename not in outputs:
+                    outputs.append(filename)
 
         return outputs