packages: authconfig/authconfig.spec - fix python packaging, now things exe...

[Artur Wroblewski]

On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Jacek Konieczny <jajcus at jajcus.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 06:40:53PM +0300, Elan Ruusamäe wrote:
>> it doesn't behave here so:
>>
>> here it creates .pyc only for imported modules, if invoked via
>> #!/shebang, no .pyc is created for the script itself:
> [...]
>> > In case if %{_bindir} or %{_sbindir} - no script should be named *.py
>> > there (actually there are some, but they should be fixed).
>> >
>> any explanation why (not that i have against)
>
> The problem is, that if script name is "something.py", then
> if any other python script in the same directory does
> 'import something' (on purpose or because of a name collision) the
> script will be compiled to pyc.
>
> There should be no *.py files in %{_bindir}. If a script is supposed to
> be importable, then it should be stored in %{py_sitescriptdir}, and only
> a wrapper script should be kept in %{_bindir}.
>
> The wrapper can be something like that:
>
> #!/usr/bin/python
> import something
> somethig.run()
>
> or
>
> #!/bin/sh
> exec /usr/bin/python -m something "$@"
>
> Whatever the module expects.

python3.spec simply creates aliases in /etc/shrc.d.

regards,

w