Bug 1255206

Summary: Consider adding installed-files.txt during build
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Ian Wienand <iwienand>
Component: python-cffiAssignee: Pavel Picka <ppicka>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Namita Soman <nsoman>
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Version: 7.3CC: ksiddiqu, mkosek, ppicka
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Fixed In Version: python-cffi-1.6.0-5.el7 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2016-11-04 04:45:08 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Ian Wienand 2015-08-20 01:20:27 UTC 
Created attachment 1065060 [details]
change to spec to add installed-files.txt

First up, I understand mixing pip & packages is not great; but it's a reality of upstream openstack testing & I do think there is room for packages to help out.

I noticed that when doing "pip uninstall cffi" (i.e., what happens before "pip install cffi" to get a later version) the cffi .so is left behind.  This is because pip has no idea it exists; it is just removing the cffi/* and egg directories.

Due to *another* bug in pip [1] we ended up with two cffi .so's on the system with bad results.  After the fix for [1], pip should overwrite the old file ... but it still seems like it would be better if "pip remove" got rid of it.

It seems that with just adding a --record tag to the install, we could ship an installed-files.txt which would help pip to remove everything correctly.

Interested to know what you think...

[1] https://github.com/pypa/pip/pull/3037
Comment 1 Ian Wienand 2015-08-20 01:21:51 UTC 
Created attachment 1065061 [details]
example of uninstalling cffi with the installed-files.txt file present
Comment 5 Pavel Picka 2016-09-19 11:41:14 UTC 
Created attachment 1202454 [details]
evidence

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1.6.0-5
Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2016-11-04 04:45:08 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2016-2371.html