Hi Python folks, I have put together a dh_purepython debhelper script to help the installation of pure Python packages.
Still missing: 1) All Python X.Y versions need to be preinstalled. What happens when you install an new Python version? Hmm, we have to register those pure python packages somehow and byte-compile them if we install a new pythonX.Y package. 2) in prerm, cope with empty directories being left in /usr/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages 3) sanity check for rm -rf in prerm 4) fix permissions of generated .py[co] files and directories, do not rely on umask 5) see BUGS of dh_purepython, for the compileall.py patch see http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=501713&group_id=5470&atid=305470 All needed scripts as well as an example debian package can be found at http://www.debian.org/~calvin/purepython/. To install, copy dh_purepython into /usr/bin/ and copy {postinst,prerm}-purepython to /usr/share/debhelper/autoscripts/. ATTENTION: to install the example, you need to patch all your /usr/lib/pythonX.Y/compileall.py files: (patch is for 1.5.2, but easy adoptable) --- compileall.py.orig Thu Jan 10 10:59:35 2002 +++ compileall.py Thu Jan 10 11:53:15 2002 @@ -49,14 +49,14 @@ if os.path.isfile(fullname): head, tail = name[:-3], name[-3:] if tail == '.py': - cfile = fullname + (__debug__ and 'c' or 'o') + cfile = dfile + (__debug__ and 'c' or 'o') ftime = os.stat(fullname)[stat.ST_MTIME] try: ctime = os.stat(cfile)[stat.ST_MTIME] except os.error: ctime = 0 if (ctime > ftime) and not force: continue if not quiet: print 'Compiling', fullname, '...' try: - py_compile.compile(fullname, None, dfile) + py_compile.compile(fullname, cfile, dfile) except KeyboardInterrupt: raise KeyboardInterrupt except: Greetings, Bastian
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