On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 01:13:15PM -0400, Stephen J. Smith wrote: > I don't know, but I will say that I don't like the way the Mailman RPM > in FC1 does it. It includes the .pyc files _and_ it has a postinstall > script that promptly deletes them all and rebuilds them. This means > that "rpm -qV mailman" lists all the .pyc files as changed immediately > after the RPM is installed. Which is an *extremely* bad packaging pratice, IMHO. The worst rpm's can be recognized by the %post scripts, in most cases :-(. I have serious doubts about compiling Python code in brp-... scripts. Shouldn't this be under direct control (only) of the %build phase? I'm a bit afraid too many magical things happen. If you see how all kinds of scripts deal with stripping (see one of my recent postings on the rpm-list, which was never answered b.t.w.) and magically do different things in different cases (unintended, maybe, probably)... -- -- Jos Vos <jos@xxxxxx> -- X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Phone: +31 20 6938364 -- Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Fax: +31 20 6948204
