Sergey G. Brester

> I need to build a RPM, not clear if build-ex/install-ex is able to do this... Indirectly yes, if you'd supply your spec file and change there: ```diff - python3...

> that nothing is being installed using the wheel method I have no idea what exactly that pip-install call or its `wheel` pip module would use internally (probably `setup.py bdist_wheel`...

> No – there is an interface defined so that pip (or any build frontend: tox, hatch, ill-named build tool…) can call any build backend (setuptools, flit-core, hatchling… and many...

> customizations to the install commands in setup.py will have no effect in a pep 517 mode. That was clear from the beginning. The questions are: - either how exactly...

> Basically, install everything in the prefix first and then move the files that need to be outside of the prefix with a post install script... Well, the new `install-ex`...

I only spoke about "install everything in the prefix first". Since old `install` is deprecated and will be removed, I created new `install-ex` what doing that. And as already said,...

> Some things that are supposed to be installed in %prefix is actually being installed under %python3_sitelib... Can not some parameters/options of `bdist_wheel` be used with `python -m build` (I...

DMS? I'm unsure we really need to have a preinstalled jail for every DMS across the world. The filters are principally OK (it's just additional file unless referenced), but the...

Not yet, maybe later... IIRC, the jail is mandatory right now.

Well, doesn't matter currently, to be covered correctly by the test-suite it shall be with a jail, so if jail gets commented it'd produce at least this error: https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/blob/c76e90fbb17115b90ca5b641c2183c0e3e644942/fail2ban/tests/clientreadertestcase.py#L889