As a halfway fix, how about the patch below?
On Apr 19, 2010, at 2:48 PM, Jonathan Lundell wrote:
> I've been trying to install an app through admin, and it's been failing.
> (Problem #1: there's no feedback at all when this happens, just a message
> that the install failed; I had to run a debugger to find out why.)
>
> It turned out that fix_newlines was raising an exception because it was
> trying to write a .py file that was read-only. It was read-only because my
> app is under Perforce source control, and read-only is the normal state for
> files not being edited.
>
> So when the app was packed, tar preserved the read-only state of the files,
> and when fix_newlines tries to write them, kablooey.
>
> My workaround is below: since this is a Unix system, fix_newlines isn't
> really necessary. I made the rewrite conditional on there actually being a
> change. Now, this is perhaps a good thing to do regardless, but of course it
> doesn't solve the problem in the Windows case.
>
> I'm not sure what the right fix is, though this one is adequate for me. Maybe
> fix_newlines should make the file writable if necessary?
>
>
> def fix_newlines(path):
> regex = re.compile(r'''(\r
> |\r|
> )''')
> for filename in listdir(path, '.*\.(py|html)$', drop=False):
> fp = open(filename, 'rb')
> rdata = fp.read()
> fp.close()
> wdata = regex.sub('\n', rdata)
> if wdata != rdata:
> fp = open(filename, 'wb')
> fp.write(wdata)
> fp.close()
>
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