hi,
I attach a patch that works for me.
It removes dangling symlinks and the associated compiled files.
Maybe this is too drakonian... if you think so, just comment out
the 'unlink' lines
a.
--
Andrea Mennucc
"The EULA sounds like it was written by a team of lawyers who want to tell
me what I can't do, and the GPL sounds like it was written by a human
being who wants me to know what I can do."
Anonymous, http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/420
--- /tmp/pycompile 2011-01-10 14:00:44.000000000 +0100
+++ /usr/bin/pycompile 2011-01-10 14:07:50.000000000 +0100
@@ -28,8 +28,8 @@
import optparse
import os
import sys
-from os import environ, listdir, walk
-from os.path import abspath, exists, isdir, isfile, join
+from os import environ, listdir, walk, unlink
+from os.path import abspath, exists, isdir, isfile, islink, join
from subprocess import PIPE, STDOUT, Popen
sys.path.insert(1, '/usr/share/python/')
from debpython.version import SUPPORTED, debsorted, vrepr, \
@@ -192,6 +192,13 @@
# byte compile files
for fn, versions_to_compile in filter_files(files, e_patterns, versions):
cfn = fn + 'c' if (__debug__ or not optimize) else 'o'
+ if islink(fn) and not exists(fn):
+ log.warn('Removing broken symlink: %s', fn)
+ unlink(fn)
+ if exists(cfn) and isfile(cfn):
+ log.warn('Removing associated compiled file: %s', cfn)
+ unlink(cfn)
+ continue
if exists(cfn) and not force:
ftime = os.stat(fn).st_mtime
try:
