Use exec.d to set PYTHONPYCACHEPREFIX #352
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Summary
We will need to use an
exec.d
binary to set thePYTHONPYCACHEPREFIX
with the dynamic value for$HOME
. This is because the values placed into the normal environment variable file API are not interpolated/expanded before the process is executed.The original implementation of this feature (#340) assumed this interpolation/expansion incorrectly and the bug was being resolved with a surprising and unexpected behavior. Specifically, the
__pycache__
contents we being written to/workspace/'$HOME'/.pycache
.This resolved the immediate bug in that these files were no longer being written into what should have been a read-only layer, but then caused another bug in that it would easily crash a
watchexec
process that was restarting a process when there were modifications to the/workspace
directory.Use Cases
Enables paketo-buildpacks/python#478 to be merged.
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