@aviau thoughts?

What? What kind of conflict?

The distro package is named python-influxdb.

@aviau please see the last line

[root@xy-dev influxdb-python]# rpm -ivh ~/sandbox/3parties/setuppackets/deps/influxdb-0.10.0-1.x86_64.rpm 
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:influxdb               ########################################### [100%]
[root@xy-dev influxdb-python]# rpm -q influxdb
influxdb-0.10.0-1.x86_64
[root@xy-dev influxdb-python]# python setup.py bdist_rpm 
[root@xy-dev influxdb-python]# rpm -i dist/influxdb-2.12.0-1.noarch.rpm 
[root@xy-dev influxdb-python]# rpm -q influxdb
influxdb-0.10.0-1.x86_64
influxdb-2.12.0-1.noarch

@aviau if the name in setup.py is influxdb, the distro package name is also influxdb-xxxx.rpm

The proper naming for python libraries is python-influxdb. You generated a package with a dirty script, please just name the RPM properly.

pyhton-influxdb has been in Debian for months now.

@aviau bug I just use the setup.py to generate rpm.

[root@xy-dev influxdb-python]# python setup.py bdist_rpm

@aviau as you said, The proper naming for python libraries is python-influxdb, but why the name in setup.py is influxdb ...

Using setup.py to generate a rpm is non-standard. If you can find a way that will rename the package name to python-influxdb without renaming the module name, I will merge. But I am in no way supporting the use of setup.py to generate a RPM.

The package name is different than the module name.

For example, requests's package name is python-requests but the module name is requests

@aviau so, how to build rpm package with prefix influxdb-python?

Take a look at this guide. Or some other guide. This repository has nothing to do with distro packaging, so this is not the right place to ask. I happen to be the Debian maintainer for influxdb-python, but I maintain it in another repository in the Debian infrastructure.

@aviau but why not change it to make more clear?

currently the document said:

Install, upgrade and uninstall InfluxDB-Python with these commands:

$ pip install influxdb
$ pip install --upgrade influxdb
$ pip uninstall influxdb
On Debian/Ubuntu, you can install it with this command:

$ sudo apt-get install python-influxdb

why the name in pip command is influxdb, while in apt-get command is python-influxdb.
And if people use python setup.py bdist_rpm they will get a package named influxdb.

@aviau influxdb usually means the database, while this project is the python client, so I think it is better to change the name.

It is different from requests, since there is no other requests, event if you google requests, the python lib will be the first one.

@aviau package name can be different from module name, but why not make it the same :)

why the name in pip command is influxdb, while in apt-get command is python-influxdb.

Because that is what every other package does. ALL of them. From http://pypi-ranking.info/alltime

• simplejson
• setuptools
• six
• requests
• virtualenv
• [...]

Out of the 50 on the top list, only python-dateutil has the python- prefix.

NONE of them have a python- prefix in the module name. And ALL of them have the python- prefix in the distro package name.

@aviau package name can be different from module name, but why not make it the same :)

Because I am following standards.

@aviau

[root@xy-dev test]# ls py
pycrypto-2.6.1/        pycrypto-2.6.1.tar.gz  pylint-mode/           pymongo-3.0.3/         pymongo-3.0.3.tar.gz   pystatsd/              pyzmq/                 
[root@xy-dev test]# grep -wE "('name':)|(name=)" pycrypto-2.6.1/setup.py 
kw = {'name':"python-crypto",
[root@xy-dev test]# grep -wE "('name':)|(name=)" pymongo-3.0.3/setup.py 
    name="pymongo",
[root@xy-dev test]# grep -wE "('name':)|(name=)" pystatsd/setup.py 
    name='pystatsd',
[root@xy-dev test]# grep -wE "('name':)|( name = )" pyzmq/setup.py 
    name = "pyzmq",

things are different, there are no other simplejson, setuptools, six, requests, but there are crypto, mongo, statsd, zmq...

@aviau and MySQL-python, pycparser, pytz, PyYAML, pyasn1 From http://pypi-ranking.info/alltime

@aviau and MySQL-python, pycparser, pytz, PyYAML, pyasn1 From http://pypi-ranking.info/alltime

The distro package name for those packages is still different. For example the debian package for pyasn1 is python-pyasn1. So they don't address the issue you are pointing to.

@aviau if you see database, there are py-postgresql, PyHBase.

What I mean is that, influxdb is already mean something, so when we use python setup.py bdist_rpm to build rpm for this project, we should better generate rpm with another name...

@aviau If we can not use the standard generate command (python setup.py bdist_rpm), the document should tell people what they can use.

@aviau If we can not use the standard generate command (python setup.py bdist_rpm), the document should tell people what they can use.

Feel free to open a pull request. I am locking this issue.