Please file a bug against this. We created the subclas pkgtarfile to get around a couple of limitations in the Tarfile class. I don't think any of us realized that Tarfile might be busted in the way you described.
Thanks for finding this problem. -j On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 08:29:05PM -0500, Richard Lowe wrote: > > Python's tarfile module ignores 'non-fatal' errors if the errorlevel > slot in the object is < 2, pkgtarfile appears to follow this > behaviour. > > It seems that the inability to extract a file is viewed as 'non-fatal' > in this context, and that pkg never sets errorlevel or does other > checking to make sure everything worked as expected. > > Is this intended for reasons I can't currently figure out, or do you > guys want a bug filed against pkg? > > -- Rich > _______________________________________________ > pkg-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
