Issue #14443: ensure that brp-python-bytecompile is invoked with the correct

python executable

The __os_install_macro defines some post-processing activities during an rpm
build; one of the scripts it calls is brp-python-bytecompile, which can take
an argument: the python executable with which to byte-compile .py files in the
package payload.

In some older versions of rpm (e.g. in RHEL 6), this invocation doesn't pass
in an argument, and brp-python-bytecompile defaults to using /usr/bin/python,
which can lead to the .py files being byte-compiled for the wrong version of
python.  This has been fixed in later versions of rpm by passing in
%{__python} as an argument to brp-python-bytecompile.

Workaround this by detecting if __os_install_post has a 0-argument invocation
of brp-python-bytecompile, and if so generating an equivalent macro that has
the argument, and explicitly provide the new definition within the specfile.

Lib/distutils/command/bdist_rpm.py

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 Implements the Distutils 'bdist_rpm' command (create RPM source and binary
 distributions)."""
 
-import sys, os
+import subprocess, sys, os
 from distutils.core import Command
 from distutils.debug import DEBUG
 from distutils.util import get_platform
@@ -406,6 +406,21 @@ class bdist_rpm(Command):
             'Summary: ' + self.distribution.get_description(),
             ]
 
+        # Workaround for #14443 which affects some RPM based systems such as
+        # RHEL6 (and probably derivatives)
+        vendor_hook = subprocess.getoutput('rpm --eval %{__os_install_post}')
+        # Generate a potential replacement value for __os_install_post (whilst
+        # normalizing the whitespace to simplify the test for whether the
+        # invocation of brp-python-bytecompile passes in __python):
+        vendor_hook = '\n'.join(['  %s \\' % line.strip()
+                                 for line in vendor_hook.splitlines()])
+        problem = "brp-python-bytecompile \\\n"
+        fixed = "brp-python-bytecompile %{__python} \\\n"
+        fixed_hook = vendor_hook.replace(problem, fixed)
+        if fixed_hook != vendor_hook:
+            spec_file.append('# Workaround for http://bugs.python.org/issue14443')
+            spec_file.append('%define __os_install_post ' + fixed_hook + '\n')
+
         # put locale summaries into spec file
         # XXX not supported for now (hard to put a dictionary
         # in a config file -- arg!)

Misc/NEWS

@@ -1138,6 +1138,9 @@ Library
 - Issue #12451: xml.dom.pulldom: parse() now opens files in binary mode instead
   of the text mode (using the locale encoding) to avoid encoding issues.
 
+- Issue #14443: Ensure that .py files are byte-compiled with the correct Python
+  executable within bdist_rpm even on older versions of RPM
+
 Extension Modules
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