Hey, I have an app hosted on PyPi, it actually is a small script which is in bin/ directory of the project. Here is the part of setup.py file of my app:
#!/usr/bin/env python #-*- coding: utf-8 -*- import sys, os, shutil try: from setuptools import setup except ImportError: from distutils.core import setup __AUTHOR__ = 'Santosh Kumar' __AUTHOR_EMAIL__ = 'u...@domain.com' setup( name='sampleapp', version='1.02.02', author=__AUTHOR__, author_email=__AUTHOR_EMAIL__, packages=['sampler'], scripts=['bin/sampler'], url='https://github.com/sampleapp/sampleapp', zip_safe=False, include_package_data=True, license=open('LICENSE').read(), description='A sample application', long_description=open('README.rst').read() ) if 'install' in sys.argv: man_path = '/usr/share/man/man1/' if os.path.exists(man_path): print("Installing man pages") man_page = "doc/sampleapp.1.gz" shutil.copy2(man_page, man_path) os.chmod(man_path + 'sampleapp.1.gz', int('444', 8)) When uploaded on PyPi, this app can be installed either by downloading the archive form https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ and doing python setup.py install or by easy_install or pip. pip is my favorite because it supports uninstall option. I can install this app (script) with pip with no problem (to /usr/bin/). But I can't install the manpage to /usr/share/man/man1/. That is why I created installation of manpages in my setup.py. So with the installation of manpages my installation is complete. But the problem is I can't uninstall the manpages with `pip uninstall sampleapp`, that will only uninstall the script. So my final question is there any patch to make distutils install and uninstall man pages? Please don't tell me about any other packages, I want to stick with Python's own http://guide.python-distribute.org/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list