New submission from samtygier <[email protected]>:
distutils will currently try to use hardlinks if os has a 'link' attribute,
however sometimes os.link() will fail, for example the filesystem may not
support it (see attached traceback).
in commands/sdist.py in make_release_tree() there is the test:
if hasattr(os, 'link'): # can make hard links on this system
link = 'hard'
msg = "making hard links in %s..." % base_dir
'link' is then passed to copy_file() in file_util.py, which trusts that if link
== 'hard', then hardlinking will work.
there has been discussion in the past, but i dont think it has been fixed
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.distutils.devel/2076
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assignee: tarek
components: Distutils
files: hardlink-traceback.txt
messages: 106881
nosy: samtygier, tarek
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: distutils should not assume that hardlinks will work
versions: Python 2.6
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file17521/hardlink-traceback.txt
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