brp-python-bytecompile in EL4

[Michael E Brown]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 12:10:57PM -0600, Bernard Johnson wrote:
> Is there anything that we can do to add the brp-python-bytecompile to
> EPEL4 buildsys?  Out of all the "current" buildsys environments (FE5,
> FE6, F7 devel, EPEL4, EPEL5), it is the only one that doesn't do the
> automatic byte compilation.
> 
> Because of this, I have to either add conditional code specifically to
> byte-compile for EL4 in my spec (ugly) or branch my spec specifically
> for EL4 (ugly).
> 
> Neither of these is ideal.
> 
> It would be easy to add this brp-* script and the macros to trigger it
> in the EPEL4 system.  This has the side effect of requiring
> scripts/macros that a base EL4 doesn't have and the package will not
> build on a base EL4.

+1

I maintain a couple python packages and this would be useful.
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Michael