[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 0751 spec: Split out python-ipap11helper and, python-default_encoding_utf8

[Petr Viktorin]

On 12/14/2015 08:18 AM, Jan Cholasta wrote:
> On 4.12.2015 14:29, Jan Cholasta wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 3.12.2015 17:32, Petr Viktorin wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> This specfile patch makes python-ipalib noarch, by splitting out the
>>> arch-dependent stuff.
>>
>> I'm not sure if this should be done at all. Both py_default_encoding and
>> (especially) _ipap11helper are internal submodules of ipapython and I
>> don't think they should be packaged separately.

Technically they aren't – it's "import _ipap11helper", not "import
ipapython._ipap11helper". Their source is in the ipapython directory,
but they're built as independent modules.

>> If this is just about packaging arch-specific code separately from
>> noarch code, I'm not sure either - all other packages with both Python
>> and C modules I have seen (e.g. python-ldap, PyYAML) simply do not care
>> and put everything in a single arch-specific package. IMHO we should
>> follow.
> 
> This would mean putting everything into the architecture-specific
> prefix. Currently the python files in python2-ipalib are installed into
> the architecture-agnostic prefix, which is wrong, because you can't
> install both python2-ipalib.i686 and python2-ipalib.x86_64 at the same
> time.

Putting everything into arch-specific prefix would mean that if you do
install both arches simultaneously, you'd get two identical copies of
ipalib, ipapython, and ipaplatform. So if having both installed is a
concern, I think the noarch bits should be split out.


-- 
Petr Viktorin