Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (156 mails)

[Dave Plater <davejplater@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 06/23/2010 06:02 PM, Jan Matějek wrote:
> > I'm lead to understand that this naming policy only applies to python 
> > modules that are designed to be used by programs other than the
> > > package that they came from, is this correct?
> >     
> yes, pretty much
>   
Referring to this section :-
In case you really need to specify your files by hand, there are two
useful macros:

    * %python_sitelib expands to /usr/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages. This
is the install location for platform-independent modules.
    * %python_sitearch expands to %{_libdir}/pythonX.Y/site-packages,
that is, either /usr/lib or /usr/lib64, depending on your architecture.
This is the install location for platform-dependent modules.

I'm not sure what a platform dependent python file is, this needs an
explanation. All scripts must be noarch, therefore a .py file would go
in %python_sitelib, which files would go into %python_sitearch?
>   
>
> I don't think that it's a good idea to link to Packaging/Fixing from
> Packaging/Python - IMHO, much better solution is to expand
> Packaging/Python and direct Packaging/Fixing into a specific section of it.
> There is already a section called "File locations" which says that "
> All python source and bytecode files should go into
> /usr/lib(64)/pythonX.Y/site-packages, or maybe /usr/lib(64)/yourapp." Do
> you think that this statement needs more emphasis or clarification?
>
> Plus, the overall policy is that "files should generally go wherever
> upstream installs them, unless that conflicts with some of our
> policies". Would it help to mention this in the guidelines?
>
> thanks
> m.
>
>   
Definitely mention "files should generally go wherever upstream installs
them, unless that conflicts with some of our policies" I maintain a few
packages which use %_datadir/%name for their python scripts, ffado is
the first one that uses %python_sitelib.
Regards
Dave P
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