BuildRequires: redhat-rpm-config
I had a bug filed that a Python package I'm maintaining cannot be
rebuilt using 'rpmbuild --rebuild'. The failure was that the *.pyc
and *.pyo files are missing.
After a lot of head-scratching and debugging it turns out that
brp-python-bytecompile was not running, and that happens because the
RPM macro %{__os_install_post} didn't contain a call to
brp-python-bytecompile. This macro exists in base RPM, but is
overridden/extended when redhat-rpm-config is installed.
Installing redhat-rpm-config fixes the problem for the bug reporter.
However this raises some questions:
- Should this package explicitly BR redhat-rpm-config?
- Should all Python packages explicitly BuildRequire redhat-rpm-config?
- Should this package not be packaging up the *.py[co] files?
- Is this a bug in redhat-rpm-config/Python/RPM/Fedora?
- Should I just ignore this because it builds fine in Koji?
Rich.
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