[OE-core][whinlatter 3/7] python3-pip: drop unused Windows distlib launcher templates

Yoann Congal
2026-03-20T23:07:43Z

From: Krupal Ka Patel <krkapate@cisco.com>

pip vendors distlib which ships Windows launcher template binaries
(*.exe) under pip/_vendor/distlib. These files are only used on
Windows systems but are installed and packaged for target, native,
and nativesdk builds.

Remove the distlib *.exe templates when not building for a mingw
(mingw32/mingw64) host to avoid shipping unused Windows binaries and
reduce package noise.

Signed-off-by: Krupal Ka Patel <krkapate@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Dubois-Briand <mathieu.dubois-briand@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
(cherry picked from commit 90d208fbb06b6e6b5aaddb0048fd6e2e1d46c8bd)
Signed-off-by: Yoann Congal <yoann.congal@smile.fr>
---
meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-pip_25.2.bb | 9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-pip_25.2.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-pip_25.2.bb
index 496eff1f15d..901c0152dfb 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-pip_25.2.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-pip_25.2.bb
@@ -30,6 +30,15 @@ SRC_URI += "file://no_shebang_mangling.patch \

SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "578283f006390f85bb6282dffb876454593d637f5d1be494b5202ce4877e71f2"

+do_install:append(){
+ # pip vendors distlib which ships Windows launcher templates (*.exe).
+ # Keep them only when building for a Windows (mingw) host.
+ case "${HOST_OS}" in
+ mingw32|mingw64) ;;
+ *) rm -f ${D}${PYTHON_SITEPACKAGES_DIR}/pip/_vendor/distlib/*.exe ;;
+ esac
+}
+
RDEPENDS:${PN} = "\
python3-compile \
python3-html \