On 07. 04. 20 11:06, Petr Viktorin wrote:
On 2020-04-03 20:44, Miro Hrončok wrote:
> Hello Python packagers.
>
> I have just updated python-rpm-generators to python-rpm-generators-11-1.fc33
> in Rawhide. It uses some fresh stuff from RPM 4.16 and will not be backported
> to older releases.
>
>
> The python(abi) requirement is now added from a RPM Lua macro, instead of by
> executing a Shell script. This is a bit faster especially for packages with a
> lot of files. For 10 000 files in one package, the speedup is roughly from ~80
> to ~2 seconds (time of the entire package build incl. creating the files from
> a Python script). That is a lot, but most of the real packages have much less
> files, so I am afraid you won't feel it.
Hi,
One thing I'm wondering about is: why is python(abi) provided by a generator,
anyway?
It's provided by a very small set of packages (python2 and python3 in Fedora).
Couldn't it just be listed in those specfiles?
Just to put this into more context: The time overhead is for the requires. The
provides are filtered on a certain path and even if we are automating stuff for
2 packages which indeed might not be needed, it doesn't really hurt anything.
See also
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/packaging@lists.fedoraproje...
for me trying to figure out when this provides are useful -- depending on the
answer there, we might want to keep the automated provides of python(abi) only
and remove the manual ones.
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