On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Andrew Flegg <and...@bleb.org> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 16:00, Anderson Lizardo > <anderson.liza...@openbossa.org> wrote: >> >> The PyMaemo team is pleased to announce the final release of PyMaemo >> for Maemo 5! > > BTW, I've tested with bind mounts and /opt. > [...]
Nice to hear that! We decided to leave out the optification for the final release, just not to delay it even more. But now I believe we can work on it as an update through extras-devel (I just hope that that QA process will take any possible regressions with the new packages we upload). > I've done the following and it seems to work well: > > * Created /opt/python2.5/lib > * Moved the contents of /usr/lib/python2.5 to /opt/python2.5/lib > * Created an init script, symlinked to S20python-optify, which does > (on start): > > mount --bind /opt/python2.5/lib /usr/lib/python2.5 > > This freed up lots of space on the rootfs and does not seem to have > impacted start-up time of Python apps particularly noticably. > > I can share the startup/shutdown script and maybe even package this as > a "Python Optifier" if you want. Do you think it can be made a generic dh_* like tool that handles this automatically? This way it could be called from debian/rules as e.g.: maemo-python-optify /usr/lib/python2.5 and the init scripts be generated automatically. What do you think? > I think this is one of the best ways of optifying Python and without > any patches. I'd suggest this gets included in the next release of > PyMaemo. Did you do any kind of upgrade tests? I'm worried how that would work if you are upgrading from an older non-optitified python installation. I also suppose that this implicitly moves files from other packages to /opt/python2.5 ? E.g. from python-hildon, python-gtk2 etc. ? What about the /usr/bin/python2.5 binary (which takes some MB) did you move it to /opt too? Regards, -- Anderson Lizardo OpenBossa Labs - INdT Manaus - Brazil _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
