On Fri, 2013-05-17 at 12:42 -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote: > On May 16, 2013, at 04:52 PM, Terry Jan Reedy wrote: > > >If the corruption only happens on Ubuntu, that would constitute 'rhyme' > >;-). I realize that asking for reports on other systems is part of the reason > >you posted, but I don't remember seeing any others yet. > > Right. :) It's harder to dig out similar problems in Debian[1] but it's > pretty clear that there have been *some* similar reports in Debian. Ubuntu > and Debian share almost all their Python infrastructure. It would definitely > be interesting to whether Fedora/RedHat or any other Linux distros have seen > similar problems.
FWIW I don't recall seeing such problems on Fedora/RH, though that could be due to... > I don't know how Fedora/RH does package installation. In Debian/Ubuntu, we do > not ship pyc files, but instead they are generated in "post-installation" > scripts, which boil down to calls to `$PYTHON -m py_compile - < filenames`. Fedora/RH pregenerate the .pyc files during rpm creation, and they exist as part of the rpm payload. Dave _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com