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From: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
To: Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>
Cc: 47214@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#47214] [core-updates] gnu: python: Remove unnecessary files
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2021 21:22:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YFJW9qZYJ1XnB/GA@3900XT> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210317133933.5eb6d325@tachikoma.lepiller.eu>

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On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 01:41:02PM +0100, Julien Lepiller wrote:
> Hi Guix!
> 
> this patch (going to core-updates) removes files from the output of
> python2 and python3, in an attempt to save some space. First, I noticed
> that python3 shipped windows binaries in its source distribution and
> installs them to the output, in lib/python3.8/distutils/command/*.exe,
> lib/python3.8/site-packages/*.exe and
> lib/python3.8/site-packages/pip/_vendor/distlib/*.exe. I remove them
> from the snippet, so they should not be installed anymore.
> 
> I also noticed that python installs files that were built during the
> test phase, so I remove them, but we need to check they are not
> actually needed. Other distros ship them in a separate package, so
> maybe we could have a separate test output if this is causing issues?
> 
> I haven't yet tested the patch, because it needs to rebuild part of the
> bootstrap chain. I'll report progress and update my patch depending
> on the results!

I got stuck on python-minimal with test-asyncio but then it didn't hang
the second time I ran the build. I don't have a good pure python package
I can think of to test the change.

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-17 19:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-17 12:41 [bug#47214] [core-updates] gnu: python: Remove unnecessary files Julien Lepiller
2021-03-17 19:22 ` Efraim Flashner [this message]
2021-03-18 23:08 ` Julien Lepiller
2021-03-19 12:27   ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-06-03  1:56     ` Julien Lepiller
2021-06-03  9:46       ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-06-11  1:01         ` bug#47214: " Julien Lepiller

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