On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 21:26 +0200, Nils Philippsen wrote: > Hi everybody, > > a lot of packages were rebuilt for Python 2.7 recently, but > unfortunately they've turned out to be not all that needed rebuilding. > Essentially, all packages that contain .py files that aren't > below /usr/lib(64)/python need to be rebuilt so that their respective > pre-built .pyc/.pyo files are built with the new Python version. > > If the packages aren't rebuilt, python will either attempt to rebuild > the .pyc/.pyo files (and fail due to SELinux policy) during runtime (if > run as root[1]) or the program will take longer to startup because the > python interpreter needs to parse the .py files everytime (and can't > just use the respective .pyc/.pyo files since they're invalid). > > The reason why this hasn't been noticed/why those packages haven't been > covered in the mass rebuild is because they don't require > "python(abi)" (which was used to find out which packages to rebuild) > even though the contained .pyc/.pyo files clearly do. This is because > the pythondeps.sh used by rpmbuild only adds that dependency to packages > which have modules in the standard paths[2]. > > Thanks to Kalev Lember who wrote a script identifying the affected > packages. Using its output, Dave Malcolm has just mass-filed bugs > against the packages which we could identify and he's looking to get > these rebuilt en-masse as well. Owners or comaintainers still would need > to file update requests so the packages actually end up where the users > can get them ;-). For this purpose, I've attached two lists to this > mail: one listing the affected packages and their owners and > comaintainers, the other listing the affected packages each person owns > or comaintains. Thanks everyone who've already rebuilt their packages. I just kicked off a script that attempts to rebuild everything still affected; the rebuilds are marked as --background which I believe makes them lower priority in Koji than other tasks. (i.e. I'm trying not to denial-of-service Koji). I'll try to file updates when the builds succeed; if they fail, I'll note it in the bug. > Please file updates when your packages have been rebuilt and nag us if > they don't get rebuilt in time, whatever that means. > > Thanks for your help, > Nils > > [1]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=621726 - 'SELinux is > preventing /usr/bin/python "write" access > on /usr/share/system-config-firewall.' > > [2]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=623233 - 'python(abi) > autodetection needed for all .py[co] files, not just those > beneath /usr/lib*/python*' -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
