[Distutils] bdist_rpm fails due to bytecompiled modules
Konstantin Ryabitsev
icon at fedoraproject.org
Thu Oct 26 22:23:01 CEST 2006
On 10/25/06, Christopher Blunck <chris at wxnet.org> 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
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