creating a python rpm to install

I have created a dead simple gtk python app (just a pycairo animation) for gnome.

I am trying to make an rpm so that it is easy for others to install it. I was hoping to make my app appear in the gnome application menu. I am running into trouble when I try to install it on Fedora 13 (my own box).

I follow the instructions here: http://docs.python.org/distutils/builtdist.html

and am able to dynamically create a TestApp-1.1.tar.gz, TestApp-1.1-1.noarch.rpm, and TestApp-1.1-1.src.rpm.

But when I double click on TestApp-1.1-1.noarch.rpm two things happen:

1. I click a dialog, accepting to install. Then, the software apparently installs, according to another dialog ("Finished"). But then another dialog comes up on top of the finished dialog to say:

   "Additional confirmation required / To install this file, additional software also has to be modified. The following software needs to be installed: TestApp-1.1-1 (noarch)".

   When I agree to this dialog, it looks like it is checking stuff out online... or just taking a long time. This whole procedure is a little confusing... is this normal?

2. Once i开发者_JAVA技巧nstalled, only one file is installed - /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/TestApp-1.1-py2.6.egg-info. What is an egg-info file? Where is my application?

When I double click on the TestApp-1.1-1.src.rpm, I get this error in a modal dialog:

"could not do simulate: Backend will not install a src rpm file"

I would appreciate any help on how to make an installable python application for gnome.

Extract the spec from the generated SRPM and then clean it up as per the Fedora Packaging guidelines.

"Packaging:Guidelines"

"Packaging:Python"