pycentral(1)

NAME

pycentral - register and build utility for Python packages

SYNOPSIS

pycentral [-h] [-v] <cmd> [<cmd options>] [<args>]

DESCRIPTION

pycentral
provides support for installing python modules independent
of the current installed Python version and handling
byte-compilation and -removal tasks in installation scripts.

OPTIONS

-v, --version: Limit the output to the version numbers of the python versions.

-h, --help: Print a help text.

pycentral has the following sub commands. For fine grained help, call: pycentral <cmd>.

bccompile: Byte compile .py files in a package.

bcremove: Remove the byte compiled .py files.

list: List all managed files.

pkginstall: Make a package available for all supported runtimes.

pkgprepare: Prepare a package for all supported runtimes.

pkgremove: Remove a package installed for all supported runtimes.

pkglist: List pycentral-managed files of a package for all supported runtimes.

rtinstall: Make installed packages available for this runtime.

rtremove: Remove packages installed for this runtime.

updatedefault: Update the default python version.

debhelper: move files to pycentral locaation, variable substitutions (called by dh_pycentral).

pycentraldir <package>: Show the installation directory used by pycentral for <package>.

showdefault: Show default python version number. Deprecated, use pyversions(1)

showsupported: Show the supported python versions. Deprecated, use pyversions(1)

showversions: Show version numbers of supported python versions. Deprecated, use pyversions(1) dh_pycentral, should not be called directly).

version: Show the pycentral version.

FILES

/etc/python/debian_config is searched for the attribute overwrite-local. If set to 1, or True, existing files in /usr/lib/pythonX.Y/*-packages are overwritten with symbolic links to the pycentral install area. The default is to abort the installation of a package, when files already exist. This behaviour may be useful, when python libraries were manually installed into this directory. The attribute byte-compile can be set to a comma separated list of the values standard and optimze to indicate how files should be byte-compiled.

AUTHOR

Matthias Klose