[Matplotlib-users] RPM conflicts between basemap and matplotlib, mpl_toolkits/__init__.py(oc)

[Daryl H. <ak...@gm...>]

Howdy,

I built basemap 1.0.5 and matplotlib 1.2.0rc3 via the simple command
'python setup.py bdist_rpm' without an error that I can tell.  When I
attempt to install them, I get a conflict between the two.  For example:

file /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/mpl_toolkits/__init__.pyc from
install of basemap-1.0.5-1.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
matplotlib-1.2.0rc3-1.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/mpl_toolkits/__init__.pyo from
install of basemap-1.0.5-1.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
matplotlib-1.2.0rc3-1.x86_64

Working around this error is easy with some rpm flags, but was curious what
the proper solution for this situation is?

thanks!
  daryl

PS.  When i built matplotlib 1.2.0rc3 on RHEL6 64bit, I need to hard set
provide_dateutil to make the resulting build work when deployed. I think
the problem is that the build is seeing it already installed from the
previous install of matplotlib , which gets blown out with the rpm update?
 I am probably rehashing well known items, sorry.