Python byte compiling question

[Ville Skyttä]

On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 10:56 -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 12:42 -0600, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> > >>>>> "JLT" == Jason L Tibbitts, <Jason> writes:
> > 
> > JLT> Since I can't delete these files, either I have to package them
> > JLT> or %ghost them.  Which is preferable?
> > 
> > Sure enough, if I do either of these then rpmlint complains:
> > 
> > W: denyhosts non-executable-in-bin /usr/bin/denyhosts.pyc 0644
> > W: denyhosts non-executable-in-bin /usr/bin/denyhosts.pyo 0644
> > 
> I'm assuming denyhosts.py is not being used as a library, only as an
> application, is that correct?
> 
> Will:
>   %files
>   %exclude /usr/bin/denyhosts.pyc
>   %exclude /usr/bin/denyhosts.pyo
> work?  This seems reasonably clean.

It will work on FC5+ with redhat-rpm-config installed, but note that
%exclude will fail if the files don't exist, so one wants to explicitly
create them in %install if the intent is to support other build
configurations from the same specfile.

>   You could also try renaming the
> script so it doesn't have the .py extension which an initial glance
> seems to be brp-python-bytecompile's heuristic.

Right.  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/182498