pycentral

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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 run-
              times.

       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  pyver-
              sions(1)

       showsupported
              Show  the  supported  python  versions.  Deprecated,  use pyver-
              sions(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-lo-
       cal.    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  at-
       tribute byte-compile can be set to a comma separated list of the values
       standard and optimze to indicate how files should be byte-compiled.

SEE ALSO
       pyversions(1), Python policy.

AUTHOR
       Matthias Klose

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