On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:10:24 -0500 Aaron Griffin <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Daniel Isenmann > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:02:15 -0400 > > Eric Bélanger <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Aaron Griffin > >> <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Eric Bélanger > >> > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Aaron Griffin > >> >> <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >>> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Daniel Isenmann > >> >>> <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >>>> On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:08:33 -0500 > >> >>>> Aaron Griffin <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >>>> > >> >>>>> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Daniel Isenmann > >> >>>>> <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >>>>> > On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:45:20 -0400 > >> >>>>> > Eric Bélanger <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >>>>> > > >> >>>>> >> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Travis Willard > >> >>>>> >> <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >>>>> >> >> As I can see now, these are .pyo files. Are they > >> >>>>> >> >> generate at runtime or something like that? They are > >> >>>>> >> >> not in the package. > >> >>>>> >> >> > >> >>>>> >> > > >> >>>>> >> > .pyo files are, I believe, "optimized" python files > >> >>>>> >> > generated during runtime. > >> >>>>> >> > > >> >>>>> >> > >> >>>>> >> I beleiie so too. I think there was a thread about how to > >> >>>>> >> deal with these files. I think the info is in a wiki > >> >>>>> >> article about python packaging guidelines. The other > >> >>>>> >> remaining file is wicd.log wich is generated at runtime > >> >>>>> >> too. > >> >>>>> > > >> >>>>> > I have nothing found about those files. The article about > >> >>>>> > python package guidelines is very short. Nothing special > >> >>>>> > about it. > >> >>>>> > > >> >>>>> > The log file is acceptable, but the pyo files are annyoing. > >> >>>>> > >> >>>>> I imagine that this only happens with apps run as root (or > >> >>>>> have write permissions to their install dir). > >> >>>>> > >> >>>>> I think the best thing, for the time being, is to do this in > >> >>>>> a pre_remove (so you have access to pacman -Ql at that time) > >> >>>>> and do something like: > >> >>>>> > >> >>>>> PKGNAME=wicd > >> >>>>> pre_remove () { > >> >>>>> for pyo in $(pacman -Qql $PKGNAME | grep \.py$ | sed > >> >>>>> 's|.py$|.pyo|g'); do if [ -f "$pyo" ]; then > >> >>>>> rm "$pyo" > >> >>>>> fi > >> >>>>> done > >> >>>>> } > >> >>>> > >> >>>> Ok, I will do it this way, but shouldn't we have a better > >> >>>> solution for this for the future? > >> >>> > >> >>> Well, the only sane way to do it would be to make sure pacman > >> >>> tracks the .pyo files by generating them as part of the package > >> >>> creation process, but I don't even know if that's possible > >> >>> > >> >> > >> >> it's possible. Just create empty files with the same name with > >> >> 'touch' in the build function. > >> > > >> > Looks like python -O py_compile.py foo.py will do this. And it > >> > looks like setuptools has an --optimize argument. I'd suggest > >> > trying this > >> > > >> > python setup.py install --optimize=1 ...other args... > >> > > >> > >> yeah, just found that here: > >> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Allan/Python_Packaging_Policy > > > > Why wasn't that added to the "official" Python Packaging Policy > > here: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Python_Package_Guidelines > > > > I will change that in the next package version of wicd. I just > > committed the other "fix", don't want to release the next package > > right now. Have to remember that page. > > Added it :) The only problem is, that architecture 'any' doesn't work anymore with this install option. But I think that this problem doesn't affect so much packages to worry about, I think.

