From 19de7ff85feb3f649f6a270241f62433ababbf8b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Fiddaman <illumos@fiddaman.net>
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2023 20:47:02 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Do not add a timestamp attribute to .pyc files

---
 lib/mog/global-transforms.mog | 11 +++++------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/mog/global-transforms.mog b/lib/mog/global-transforms.mog
index c1e1b094ed..0aa2168717 100644
--- a/lib/mog/global-transforms.mog
+++ b/lib/mog/global-transforms.mog
@@ -47,13 +47,12 @@
 <transform file -> default mode 0644>
 <transform dir -> default mode 0755>
 
-# The timestamp on any compiled python objects that are shipped in a package
-# must always be newer than the corresponding source file, or python recompiles
-# and the benefit of shipping the compiled version is lost, particularly if
-# python is not running with privileges that can update the compiled version on
-# disk.
+# The timestamp of Python .py files is embedded in the associated compiled .pyc
+# file. We must explicitly set the timstamp for these otherwise Python will
+# recompile and the benefit of shipping the compiled version is lost,
+# particularly if python is not running with privileges that can update the
+# compiled version on disk.
 <transform file path=.*\.py$ -> default timestamp $(TS_SRC)>
-<transform file path=.*\.pyc$ -> default timestamp $(TS_OBJ)>
 
 # Overrides
 <transform file dir path=(lib|var)/svc/manifest/ -> set group sys>