Created on 2004-10-23 17:25 by dairiki, last changed 2010-09-30 00:35 by eric.araujo.
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| msg60589 - (view) | Author: Geoffrey T. Dairiki (dairiki) | Date: 2004-10-23 17:25 | |
On unix platforms, if one has a dangling symlink
anywhere in ones source directory tree (and a
MANIFEST.in file), 'setup.py sdist' will fail.
('OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory' on the
dangling symlink.)
A fix for this is for filefind.findall to use
os.lstat() instead of os.stat() (when lstat is available.)
(Another possible fix would be to catch the
OSError(ENOENT) exception and either ignore it or
render it as a warning.)
Appendix A
Details on how to reproduce the bug:
In your top-level source directory (the one with a
setup.py):
1. Create a dangling symlink. ('ln -s foo bar',
assuming the file 'foo' doesn't exist.)
2. Do a 'touch MANIFEST.in'
3. Run 'python setup.py sdist'
The command should fail with:
'error: bar: No such file or directory'
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| msg80963 - (view) | Author: Akira Kitada (akitada) | Date: 2009-02-02 17:17 | |
This is reproducible, but I'm not sure why this could be a problem... Is there any use cases that you think it could be better than failing? |
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| msg100635 - (view) | Author: Pádraig Brady (pixelbeat) | Date: 2010-03-08 11:22 | |
Packaging dangling symlinks is often required, so this is a problem. For e.g. in my package I want to install this symlink: /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default -> ../sites-available/myapp.conf |
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| msg111046 - (view) | Author: Éric Araujo (eric.araujo) *  |
Date: 2010-07-21 13:05 | |
Thanks for the report. The steps you described need to be turned into a unit test. Can someone provide a patch against py3k’s test_sdist.py? |
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| History | |||
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| Date | User | Action | Args |
| 2010-09-30 00:35:04 | eric.araujo | set | versions: + 3rd party |
| 2010-08-19 17:50:33 | BreamoreBoy | set | type: behavior versions: + Python 3.1, Python 2.7, Python 3.2 |
| 2010-07-21 13:05:43 | eric.araujo | set | versions:
- Python 2.5 nosy: + eric.araujo title: filelist.findall should use os.lstat -> filelist.findall should not fail on dangling symlinks messages: + msg111046 assignee: tarek components: + Distutils2 stage: test needed |
| 2010-03-08 11:22:10 | pixelbeat | set | nosy:
+ pixelbeat messages: + msg100635 versions: + Python 2.5 |
| 2009-02-02 17:17:10 | akitada | set | nosy:
+ tarek, akitada messages: + msg80963 |
| 2004-10-23 17:25:25 | dairiki | create | |