Bug 10842

Summary:	python package must not set PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High	CC:	makowski.mageia
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/cauldron/python/current/SPECS/python.spec?revision=447236&view=markup
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Source RPM:	python-2.7.3-7.mga3.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Hartmut Goebel 2013-07-26 10:09:19 CEST

The python RPM contains scripts for profile.d which forcefully sets PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE. Setting this variable leds to a lot of trouble, see bug 3348, bug 3358, and bug 3350. And it leads to a regression in bug 3358#c33.

Pythons default behavior is to write byte-code, so setting this variable changes the normal behavior and objects user expectations. If someone really wants to disable writing byte-code, he should set this variable actively.

Solution:

Just remove (or comment) the two lines containing PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE from the .spec file.


Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

Hartmut Goebel 2013-07-26 10:10:46 CEST

Keywords: (none) => Junior_job
Priority: Normal => High
Blocks: (none) => 3358, 3348

Comment 1 Philippe Makowski 2013-07-26 10:31:08 CEST

No way to fix that in Mageia 2 and Mageia 3
It will be fix in Mageia 4, not before
and it is a duplicate of #3348

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 3348 ***

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => makowski.mageia
Resolution: (none) => DUPLICATE

Philippe Makowski 2013-07-26 10:31:34 CEST

Keywords: Junior_job => (none)
Blocks: 3348, 3358 => (none)

Comment 2 Hartmut Goebel 2013-07-26 10:36:51 CEST

Reopening, as this bug is explicitly for Cauldron. And it is not a duplicate of 3348, but a precondition for solving 3348:

If we remove PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE from all .spec-files, but still have it in the profile.d-files, byte-code will still not be written when building packages.

Status: RESOLVED => REOPENED
Resolution: DUPLICATE => (none)

Comment 3 Philippe Makowski 2013-07-26 10:44:25 CEST

Please stop, and really trust me, it is a duplicate
bug 3348 is not about "remove PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE from all .spec-files"
but change profile.d files

and at the same time, we need to remove PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE from some spec files

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 3348 ***

Status: REOPENED => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => DUPLICATE