[OmniOS-discuss] pkg verify failing on pyc files

[Lauri Tirkkonen]

On Thu, Oct 08 2015 16:23:35 -0400, Eric Sproul wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 3:37 PM, Lauri Tirkkonen <lotheac at iki.fi> wrote:
> >     % pkg list -Hv simplejson-26
> >     pkg://omnios/library/python-2/simplejson-26@3.6.5-0.151014:20150402T184431Z i--
> >
> > Yes, yes it is, and it *was* built using pkgsend -T '*.py'. However,
> > the commit in omnios-build introducing that was authored on Mar 25 2015
> > (8cc8f3ef45d9c7d8ccdfda608d00599cd3890597). My theory is that if the
> > file content does not change, even if pkgsend -T is used to preserve the
> > timestamps, the file is not touched on update; would that help explain
> > what you're seeing?
> 
> Since .pyc files are evidently locally modified outside of pkg(5),
> would it make sense to mark them as such in their manifests, i.e.
> setting the "preserve" attribute?  This makes pkg verify not report
> differences from the installed manifest.
> 
> Perhaps not a total win, though, as it would mean potentially losing
> upgrade content, unless preserve was set to "renameold" or some such.

One could just not ship them at all; I was just trying to find out why
they're being regenerated after the package install.

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