On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 01:42:24PM +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> Related to recent space saving discussions, I came across PLD's
> rpm-build-macros package recently, and found that they hardlink
> identical *.pyc and *.pyo. In a lot of cases, they're the same,
> and there's some potential for saving some MB "for free",
> on my FC6 x86_64 box:
>
> $ /usr/sbin/hardlink -ncv /usr/lib*/python2.4 2>&1 | tail -n 1
> Would save 11116544
I get more than twice as much on a typical FC6/x86_64 system:
27275264. That's 26 MB on 166MB total, e.g. saving 16%.
# du -sc /usr/lib*/python2.4| tail -n 1
170200 total
On another system I get 21MB of 144MB total, e.g about 15%.
> The PLD implementation looks like this:
>
> # Hardlink binary identical .pyc and .pyo files
> # (idea by glen <at> pld-linux <dot> org)
> %__spec_install_post_py_hardlink {\
> %{!?no_install_post_py_hardlink: __spec_install_post_py_hardlink() { \
> [ ! -d "$RPM_BUILD_ROOT" ] || find "$RPM_BUILD_ROOT" -name '*.pyc' | while read a; do \
> b="$(echo $a|sed -e 's/.pyc$/.pyo/')"; \
> if cmp -s "$a" "$b"; then \
> ln -f "$a" "$b"; \
> fi; \
> done \
> }; __spec_install_post_py_hardlink } }
>
> The use of "cmp" would require diffutils installed. Or the above
> could be converted to use hardlink instead (which would have to be made
> sure to be around) or maybe sha1sum (in coreutils, pretty much always
> around in buildroots).
>
> I suppose something like the above could be easily added to
> redhat-rpm-config or rpm, eg. embedded in brp-python-bytecompile
> or run after it in %__os_install_post.
brp-python-bytecompile sounds like the best spot since the pyc/pyos
are created there. Maybe we should ship an improved
brp-python-bytecompile in redhat-rpm-config while lobbying rpm
upstream to adopt it?
> Worth it? Other comments?
A 15% space gain (under python) w/o any drawbacks? Always worth it. :)
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