diff -r 23d9daed4b14 Lib/distutils/command/bdist_rpm.py
--- a/Lib/distutils/command/bdist_rpm.py	Tue Mar 04 23:22:15 2014 +0000
+++ b/Lib/distutils/command/bdist_rpm.py	Sun Mar 09 02:34:32 2014 -0300
@@ -512,10 +512,14 @@
         # XXX this is kind of misleading: user-supplied options are files
         # that we open and interpolate into the spec file, but the defaults
         # are just text that we drop in as-is.  Hmmm.
-
-        install_cmd = ('%s install -O1 --root=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT '
-                       '--record=INSTALLED_FILES') % def_setup_call
-
+        
+        # if any path contain spaces, it will generate a rpmbuild error.
+        # using sed to put file paths between double-quotes
+        install_setup_call = ('%s install -O1 --root=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT '
+                              '--record=INSTALLED_FILES') % def_setup_call
+        sed_quotes = 'sed -i -e \'s\\^\\"\\\' -e \'s\\$\\"\\\' INSTALLED_FILES'
+        install_cmd = '%s && %s' % (install_setup_call, sed_quotes)
+        
         script_options = [
             ('prep', 'prep_script', "%setup -n %{name}-%{unmangled_version}"),
             ('build', 'build_script', def_build),
diff -r 23d9daed4b14 Lib/distutils/tests/test_bdist_rpm.py
--- a/Lib/distutils/tests/test_bdist_rpm.py	Tue Mar 04 23:22:15 2014 +0000
+++ b/Lib/distutils/tests/test_bdist_rpm.py	Sun Mar 09 02:34:32 2014 -0300
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 import os
 import tempfile
 import shutil
+import textwrap
 from test.support import run_unittest
 
 from distutils.core import Distribution
@@ -93,6 +94,59 @@
                      'the rpm command is not found')
     @unittest.skipIf(find_executable('rpmbuild') is None,
                      'the rpmbuild command is not found')
+    def test_filename_with_whitespace(self):
+        SETUP_PY_WS = textwrap.dedent("""
+
+            from distutils.core import setup
+            import foo
+
+            setup(name='foo', version='0.1',
+                  py_modules=['foo', 'foo_with space'],
+                  url='xxx', author='xxx',
+                  author_email='xxx')
+
+        """)
+
+        # let's create a package with 2 files in it
+        tmp_dir = self.mkdtemp()
+        pkg_dir = os.path.join(tmp_dir, 'foo')
+        os.mkdir(pkg_dir)
+        self.write_file((pkg_dir, 'setup.py'), SETUP_PY_WS)
+        self.write_file((pkg_dir, 'foo.py'), '#')
+        self.write_file((pkg_dir, 'foo_with space.py'), '#')
+        self.write_file((pkg_dir, 'MANIFEST.in'),
+                        'include foo.py\n' +
+                        'include foo_with space.py')
+        self.write_file((pkg_dir, 'README'), '')
+        
+        dist = Distribution({'name': 'foo', 'version': '0.1',
+                             'py_modules': ['foo', 'foo_with space'],
+                             'url': 'xxx', 'author': 'xxx',
+                             'author_email': 'xxx'})
+        dist.script_name = 'setup.py'
+        os.chdir(pkg_dir)
+
+        sys.argv = ['setup.py']
+        cmd = bdist_rpm(dist)
+        cmd.fix_python = True
+
+        # running in quiet mode
+        cmd.quiet = 1
+        cmd.ensure_finalized()
+        cmd.run()
+
+        dist_created = os.listdir(os.path.join(pkg_dir, 'dist'))
+        self.assertTrue('foo-0.1-1.noarch.rpm' in dist_created)
+
+    # XXX I am unable yet to make this test work without
+    # spurious sdtout/stderr output under Mac OS X
+    @unittest.skipUnless(sys.platform.startswith('linux'),
+                         'spurious sdtout/stderr output under Mac OS X')
+    # http://bugs.python.org/issue1533164
+    @unittest.skipIf(find_executable('rpm') is None,
+                     'the rpm command is not found')
+    @unittest.skipIf(find_executable('rpmbuild') is None,
+                     'the rpmbuild command is not found')
     def test_no_optimize_flag(self):
         # let's create a package that brakes bdist_rpm
         tmp_dir = self.mkdtemp()