Man page 1 : pycentral

pycentral - register and build utility for Python packages

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

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

• -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.

/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-compilecan be set to a comma separated list of the values standardand optimzeto indicate how files should be byte-compiled.

pyversions(1), Python policy.

Matthias Klose