Re: How to disable brp-python-bytecompile

--- Mike Meyer <[email protected]>
wrote:
In the file /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/macros
defined  something like:

%__os_install_post    \
    /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-compress \
    %{!?__debug_package:/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-strip
%{__strip}} \
    /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-strip-static-archive
%{__strip} \
    /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-strip-comment-note
%{__strip} %{__objdump} \
    /usr/lib/rpm/brp-python-bytecompile \
    /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-java-repack-jars \
%{nil}

You can redefine it in your specfile or on the command
line with rpmrebuild invocation.

Another option is change
/usr/lib/rpm/brp-python-bytecompile 
just add 'exit 0' after '#!/bin/sh' line

Valery.

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm trying to build an rpm from a python application
> for a client to
> run on both RHEL4 and RHEL5.
> 
> rpmbuild has the rather nasty habit of runing
> /usr/lib/rpm/brp-python-byteompile, which goes
> through all the files
> to be installed by the rpm, and compiling any .py
> files it finds into
> .pyo files.
> 
> The first problem is that, while the resulting rpm
> claims to be
> noarch, I can't find anything from the Python folks
> promising that
> .pyo (and .pyc) files are architecture-dependent, so
> this would seem
> to be an error even in the general case, but that's
> not really my
> problem.
> 
> My issues is that the resulting .pyo are just so
> much wasted space.
> They don't work on one of the two platforms we're
> going to deploy to,
> because the two pythons are different (2.3 vs. 2.4),
> and use different
> versions of the byte code.
> 
> That this all happens after the install scripts run
> means I can't use
> the rpm build process to clean up after it. The best
> I've been able to
> do is use a post-install script to delete the
> garbage files it
> installs - which means the rpm carries them around,
> we install them,
> and then delete them, which is just ugly, and seems
> error-prone as
> well.
> 
> Ideally, there's a knob somewhere I can twist to
> disable
> brp-python-bytecompile at rpm build time, and I can
> then fix the
> install scripts to byte-compile the things I need.
> 
> Failing that, is there someplace I can hook a script
> in to clean these
> files up *before* the rpm gets built from them, but
> after
> brp-python-bytecompile runs?
> 
>       thanks,
>       <mike
> -- 
> Mike Meyer <[email protected]>	
> http://www.mired.org/consulting.html
> Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email
> for more information.
> 
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