hello, i have a very basic pure-python package and script that i would like to distribute as a noarch rpm using distutils. i am using FC5 as my development platform and have prepared a setup.py that properly builds and installs my application. the first problem i have is that the bdist_rpm command results in an %install section as follows: %install python setup.py install --single-version-externally-managed --root=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT --record=INSTALLED_FILES the trouble here with that %install section is that the python modules get bytecompiled and thus turned into native code. i'd prefer for that not to happen, so i have written my own install.sh script and i provide that to my python setup.py call as follows: $ python setup.py bdist_rpm --spec-only --install-script /path/to/install.sh my install.sh passes the --optimize 0 and --no-compile arguments to distutils, resulting in no .pyc or .pyo files being installed in my RPM_BUILD_ROOT. the contents of my install.sh are as follows: python setup.py install --single-version-externally-managed --root=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT --record=INSTALLED_FILES --optimize 0 --no-compile i thought that would result in no byte compiled files but unfortunately i was wrong. i'm not sure what's causing it, but rpmbuild ends up calling brp-python-bytecompile to compile the .py files. i noticed in the ChangeLog for rpm the following: - force *.py->*.pyo byte code compilation with brp-python-bytecompile. so it appears to me as tho there is no way to assemble a noarch RPM using distutils. does that sound accurate to you all? or are those folks out there using distutils and an old version of rpm (prior to 2005) that are able to assemble noarch RPMs? -c -- WeatherNet Observations for station: home Temperature: 54.80F Pressure: 30.02in; Dew Point: 30.76F (40%) Wind: 248 at 5 mph Recorded: 17:54:59 10/25/06 (http://wsdl.wxnet.org/inquiry/binding.wsdl)