At 03:48 PM 10/8/2010 -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote:
I just got a new report of a buildout problem with Mailman 3.0a6.
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/656946
The first part of the problem (corrupt eggs) was easily fixed. It was caused
by a faulty MANIFEST.in that let eggs/ and parts/ leak into the tarball.
However, even with that fixed, buildout is failing for reasons I can't yet
figure out. A full build is pastebin'd here:
http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/509012/
I've tried pinning the setuptools version number < 0.6c12 and I've tried
pinning the logilab-common package to < 0.52, but neither workaround helps. I
actually can't tell where the problem is: is it setuptools, distribute,
logilab-common or something else? It *feels* like a bug in
setuptools-0.6c12dev.
I recently added symlink extraction support to 0.6c12dev; apparently
it doesn't work with the symlink found in logilab-common. (I'll have
to investigate further to find out why.)
Older versions of setuptools simply didn't extract symlinks at all,
so this problem didn't occur there. I've put in a workaround (
http://peak.telecommunity.com/snapshots/setuptools-0.6c12dev-r85332.tar.gz
) to fix the immediate issue (which is that an unextractable symlink
causes an error), and next week I'll take a look at finding out why
this *particular* symlink isn't extractable.
(Preliminary guess: the tarfile module doesn't support relative
links, and thus needs some path fixup help from setuptools.)
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