On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 15:31 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote: > On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 21:51 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote: > > On Tuesday 03 April 2007, 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. > > [...] > > > The PLD implementation looks like this: > > [...] > > > 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. > > > > Jeremy pinged me about resurrecting this thread, so here goes, the original > > threads starts at > > http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-packaging/2007-April/msg00003.html for > > those who missed it. > > > > Anyway, attached is a patch against rpm.org hg for discussion - seems somewhat > > clumsy to use sha1sum for this but I guess it could be acceptable. Tested on > > just a few python packages on F-7. Better implementations certainly exist, > > and are welcome :) > > Looks okay to me. Probably the easiest thing to do is to put it in > redhat-rpm-config for now[1] and then go from there. If anyone > disagrees with it, raise your hands... otherwise, I'll get it in the > start of next week And this is done in redhat-rpm-config-9.0.0-1 that I just built. Jeremy -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
