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Change shebangs with Tools/scripts/pathfix.py?

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
build-system, documentation

Research direction

Start by reading the guide's existing shebang sections and inspect /usr/lib64/python3.6/Tools/scripts/pathfix.py, including its directory filename matching and direct-file behavior. Review the 23-comment discussion to determine whether the guide should recommend the example invocation or whether automatic RPM-build use is still in scope. Done means the chosen documentation scope is resolved and the relevant guide text reflects it.

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Description

enhancement

There is a script in /usr/lib64/python3.6/Tools/scripts/pathfix.py that changes shebangs. We may want to:

  • recommend that in the shebang sections of this guide
  • use it automagically in rpm builds to fix shebangs? (with similar logic to pybytecompile script)

I'm opening this here, because of the first above point. If we say we want to use this automatically, we can discuss this in some ML.

Example usage:

%install
...
%{python3_sitearch}/Tools/scripts/pathfix.py -i "%{__python3} -s" -p %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/*

Note: A small problem with this script is that it only converts files where the name matches r'^[a-zA-Z0-9_]+\.py$' when called on directory, but you can call it directly on files.

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