Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 182498
Unnecessary byte-compilation of python scripts in /usr/bin
Last modified: 2009-03-07 03:37:18 EST
brp-python-bytecompile byte-compiles also executable scripts in /usr/bin. There should be no reason to do that; python won't byte-compile the invoked scripts to disk either. This results in unneeded junk in the bin dirs, for example on my Rawhide box: $ ls /usr/bin/*.py? /usr/bin/exif.pyc /usr/bin/games-server.pyc /usr/bin/orient.pyc /usr/bin/exif.pyo /usr/bin/games-server.pyo /usr/bin/orient.pyo I'm not sure of the best approach to fix this, but limiting the byte compilation to things below /usr/lib, /usr/lib64, and /usr/share could be worth considering.
It might also be worth considering naming things *.py in /bin we have #! magic for a reason...
Yep, agreed, but I think not byte-compiling them would still be useful as renaming things may cause need for unnecessary patchwork for package maintainers or upstream doc deviation etc.
Changing component to rpm as the script is in rpm-build, not redhat-rpm-config.
Reassigning to owner after bugzilla made a mess, sorry about the noise...
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Yes, still happens with current Rawhide, rpm-4.4.2.3-1.fc9.x86_64
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
Fixed upstream now, bin and sbin directories are excluded from byte compilation.
I thought this is fixed but koji as well as local rawhide build failed and still generating .pyo and .pyc in /usr/bin
Upstream != rawhide, but it is in rawhide too now.