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 overwritelocal. If set to 1, or True, existing files in /usr/lib/pythonX.Y/site-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.

SEE ALSO

pyversions(1), Python policy.

AUTHOR

Matthias Klose

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