[Mageia-dev] Python Packaging Policy

Thu Jan 20 19:11:01 CET 2011

about http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Python_packaging_policy
+and pyc/pyo policy and the problem of bigger packages
+
+I made a test that seems not bad with :
+
+%python_compile_opt
+%python_compile
+install *.pyc *.pyo %{buildroot}%{py_platsitedir}/%{name}
+%fdupes %{buildroot}%{py_platsitedir}/%{name}
+
+
+with
+%define fdupes(s) \
+ _target=""; \
+ _symlinks=0; \
+ %{-s:_symlinks=1;} \
+ fdupes -q -n -r %1 | \
+  while read _file; do \
+    if test -z "$_target" ; then \
+      _target="$_file"; \
+    else \
+      if test -z "$_file" ; then \
+        _target=""; \
+        continue ; \
+      fi ; \
+      if test "$_symlinks" = 1; then \
+        ln -sf "${_target#%{buildroot}}" "$_file"; \
+      else \
+        ln -f "$_target" "$_file"; \
+      fi ;\
+    fi ; \
+ done \
+%{nil}
+
+in fact as said in this bugzilla entry under Fedora
+(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=617039),
+ %fdupes can be usefull not only for Python
+