New submission from Vinay Sajip <vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk>: There are a number of places in packaging.install where temporary directories are created, but never cleaned up:
1. In _move_files, if no destination path is passed in, one is created using mkdtemp(), but it's not clear where this would be deleted. Moreover, it's never called without a path and not part of the public API, so it would make sense to always expect a destination to be passed in (and update the docstring to match) 2. install_local_project, in the case of an archive, unpacks it into a mkdtemp()'d directory, but never deletes that directory later. 3. install_dists() also calls mkdtemp() if a path is not passed in, but it's not clear where this would be deleted. This should be changed to always require a path to be passed in. The install_from_infos accepts None as an install path and passes that to install_dists, but why are we being so generous? It's not asking a lot to be given an explicit path to install to. Note: the DistInfo class in packaging.pypi.dist also does this kind of thing (in the download and unpack methods) - it would seem sensible to make similar changes there. ---------- assignee: tarek components: Distutils2, Library (Lib) messages: 138860 nosy: alexis, eric.araujo, tarek, vinay.sajip priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: packaging install fails to clean up temp files type: behavior versions: Python 3.3 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12391> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
