On Thursday 11 February 2010, Tom Lane wrote:
Ville =?iso-8859-1?q?Skytt=E4?= <ville.skytta(a)iki.fi> writes:
> On Thursday 11 February 2010, Scott Frankel wrote:
>> I'm using a simple spec file to package a python-based application for
>> distribution. When passed to rpmbuild, it creates an rpm with both
>> source (.py) and bytecode compiled (.pyc) files. I'd like to remove
>> the source files from the rpm.
>
> Try this in %files:
> %exclude /path/to/stuff/*.py
Even easier: after running "make install" in the specfile script, just
"rm" the files you don't want from the install tree.
In the case of Python packages, that will break automatic byte-compilation of
missing *.pyc and *.pyo.