Miro Hrončok

They might appear to work until they don't. EPEL packages are built against released RHEL, not CentOS Stream.

Yes. E.g. with python3.11-rpm.

Try installing python3.11-rpm to c8s+epel mock root.

1. `mock -r centos-stream+epel-8-x86_64 --scurb=all` 2. `mock -r centos-stream+epel-8-x86_64 --init` 3. `mock -r centos-stream+epel-8-x86_64 --install python3.11-rpm` ``` - nothing provides (rpm-libs(x86-64) >= 4.14.3-28 with rpm-libs(x86-64) < 4.14.3-29) needed by python3.11-rpm-4.14.3-28.1.el8.x86_64...

I don't. I want to install the python3.11-rpm package. The RPM bindings for Python 3.11

I know how it happened. That's why I reported this issue back then. Anyway, whtger it's linked there or back I don't really care, as long as the invalid combination...

I've been debugging a related RHEL 9 issue and I found the following. On Fedora Silverblue 40 Beta, some of the `.pyc` files have zeroed mtimes embedded in them. For...

Solution ideas: ### A. Fedora Python RPM packages can switch from timestamp-based to hash-based invalidation - This would solve the issue once all the Python packages are rebuilt with the...

> Thanks for the detailed options! Could option C be implemented by running `python -m compileall` (https://docs.python.org/3/library/compileall.html) on all `.py` files in `/usr`? You don't want to run it on...

Only some .py files are importable modules. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/No_more_automagic_Python_bytecompilation#Detailed_Description on why we don't blindly bytecompile them all.