[issue11340] test_distutils fails because of borked compress program

Westley Martínez aniko...@gmail.com added the comment: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25908 Looks like Allan will be taking care of this problem (eventually). I think this bug can be closed. -- resolution: - fixed status: open - closed ___

[issue11340] test_distutils fails because of borked compress program

Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org added the comment: Thank you for investigating. -- assignee: tarek - eric.araujo resolution: fixed - wont fix stage: - committed/rejected ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue11340

[issue11340] test_distutils fails because of borked compress program

Westley Martínez aniko...@gmail.com added the comment: I emailed the Arch Linux people to get more information on this particular issue. If they decide that the compress program will stay as is I will write attempt to write a patch to skip the test based on the output of compress's --version

[issue11340] test_distutils fails because of borked compress program

Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org added the comment: Okay. It’s not a very beautiful check, but it will do. Do you want to make a patch to disable compress if it’s a fake compress program? -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org

[issue11340] test_distutils fails because of borked compress program

Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org added the comment: Thanks for opening #11678 for the feature request. To fix this in all versions, we would need a way to find that the current OS is Arch, and/or that the compress program is faulty. Do you know how to do that? Maybe with lsb_release?

[issue11340] test_distutils fails because of borked compress program

Westley Martínez aniko...@gmail.com added the comment: I've already got a patch ready for #11678. As for checking the compress command, perhaps we can accomplish it by comparing version information of the program: $ compress --version compress 1.4 Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation,

[issue11340] test_distutils fails

Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org added the comment: Can you run “./python -m distutils.tests.test_archive_util”? We may get more output. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue11340

[issue11340] test_distutils fails

Westley Martínez aniko...@gmail.com added the comment: test_check_archive_formats (__main__.ArchiveUtilTestCase) ... ok test_compress_deprecated (__main__.ArchiveUtilTestCase) ... FAIL test_make_archive (__main__.ArchiveUtilTestCase) ... ok test_make_archive_cwd (__main__.ArchiveUtilTestCase)

[issue11340] test_distutils fails

Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org added the comment: Okay, verbose mode does not yield more info :) Is the compress program special on your system? -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue11340

[issue11340] test_distutils fails

Westley Martínez aniko...@gmail.com added the comment: I may have figured out the problem. The test checks if the archive's extension is '.tar.Z', but the compress command on my computer appends the .gz extension to the file. To my surprise, the gunzip command worked on the file. So the

[issue11340] test_distutils fails

Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org added the comment: Funny, that’s the second broken compress program we’re hearing of. Can you give me the output of platform.linux_distribution() so that we can skip this test on your OS? -- ___ Python tracker

[issue11340] test_distutils fails

Westley Martínez aniko...@gmail.com added the comment: ('', '', '') :D I'm using Arch Linux. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue11340 ___

[issue11340] test_distutils fails

Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org added the comment: :D I know you’re using Arch, but I need a way to get that info from Python to skip the test. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue11340

[issue11340] test_distutils fails

Westley Martínez aniko...@gmail.com added the comment: So how do other distros do it? -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue11340 ___

[issue11340] test_distutils fails

Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org added the comment: In general, we prefer to test for the presence of a feature rather than hard-coding operating systems names. when this is inevitable, we use sys.platform (say for different BSDs) or platform.linux_distribution (which returns meaningful values

[issue11340] test_distutils fails

Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org added the comment: Thanks for the report. What is your OS name and exact version? -- assignee: - tarek components: +Distutils -Tests nosy: +eric.araujo, tarek ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org

[issue11340] test_distutils fails

Westley Martínez aniko...@gmail.com added the comment: Arch Linux kernel 2.6.37.2 glibc 2.13 -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue11340 ___

[issue11340] test_distutils fails

Brett Cannon br...@python.org added the comment: Can you provide the test's failing report and traceback? -- nosy: +brett.cannon status: open - pending ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue11340

[issue11340] test_distutils fails

Brett Cannon br...@python.org added the comment: My mistake; missed the attachment. -- status: pending - open ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue11340 ___

[issue11340] test_distutils fails

New submission from Westley Martínez aniko...@gmail.com: test_compressed_deprecated failed -- components: Tests files: test_distutils messages: 129588 nosy: anikom15 priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: test_distutils fails type: behavior versions: Python 3.3 Added