On 10/25/06, Christopher Blunck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Not sure what you call a bug here. The creation of .pyc and .pyo files > > is an important stage and shouldn't be omitted when building RPMs, nor > > should the files be skipped (deleted and not included in %files). This > > way stuff like SELinux permissions get set correctly when the RPM is > > installed. > > distutils/setuptools creates .pyc files - that's ok. > > here's how the problem occurs: > > 1.) distutils generates a .spec file with an %install that calls > setup.py like below. .py and .pyc files are generated, and are > included in the INSTALLED_FILES record. see below for what is > called in %install: > > python setup.py install --single-version-externally-managed > --root=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT --record=INSTALLED_FILES > > > 2.) rpmbuild is called, and it generates a shell script that calls the > command above. AFTER that command is executed, rpmbuild calls some > strip commands as well as brp-python-bytecompile. > brp-python-bytecompile generates .pyo files from .pyc but it does not > update INSTALLED_FILES (because that is a distutils artifact that > rpmbuild doesn't know about) > > 3.) rpmbuild calls into %install, and INSTALLED_FILES is loaded. it > does not include the .pyo files that rpmbuild created. since > there are unpackaged files (the .pyo files) that exist in the > installation directory that are not referenced in the > INSTALLED_FILES file, rpmbuild chokes with an error. > > > step #3 is where the error occurs. it's basically an inconsistency > between distutils and rpmbuild. i can run distutils to generate > optimized modules (.pyo) but that doesn't apply to my scripts. as a > result i still have unpackaged files...
Yes, it looks like distutils is not anticipating the new behaviour from rpmbuild (both .pyc and .pyo will be compiled by brp-python-bytecompile). It's probably something that should be fixed when generating the %files section. Regards, -- Konstantin Ryabitsev Montréal, Québec _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
