On Monday, August 8, 2016 at 9:40:49 PM UTC-5, gjr80 wrote:
>
> Matthew,
>
> Did you notice this:
>
> pi@raspberrypi:/home/weewx/bin $ ./wee_extension install=stackedwindrose-
> 2.0.0.tar.gz
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "./wee_extension", line 83, in <module>
> main()
> File "./wee_extension", line 62, in main
> config_path, config_dict = weecfg.read_config(options.config, _args)
> File "/home/weewx/bin/weecfg/__init__.py", line 218, in read_config
> locations=locations, file_name=file_name)
> File "/home/weewx/bin/weecfg/__init__.py", line 193, in find_file
> raise IOError("%s is not a file" % file_path)
> IOError: install=stackedwindrose-2.0.0.tar.gz is not a file
> pi@raspberrypi:/home/weewx/bin $
>
> It came from this post
> <https://groups.google.com/d/msg/weewx-user/5GyFXgDu_CE/IbvyQnvUAAAJ> in
> the user group where a user was trying to install an extension I had put
> together.
>
> When testing on a setup.py install on a VM at home I was executing:
>
> /home/weewx/bin/wee_extension --install=/home/gary/weewx_extensions/
> stackedwindrose-2.0.0.tar.gz
>
> from /home/gary and everything worked (install/uninstall/list) many times
> over the course of a day (multiple sessions). Never missed a beat. The user
> claims that stackedwindrose-2.0.0.tar.gz is in /home/weewx/bin. I tried
> the same command/setup as the user claims he used this morning on my VM and
> I received the same error the user cited. The only way I could get it to
> work was using full paths. I did a bit of debugging in weecfg.__init__
> and as far as I could tell wee_extension was getting hung up looking for
> weewx.conf (certainly file_name == 'weewx.conf' when the error was
> thrown). I would have expected that if __init__ was looking for weewx.conf
> and it found that stackedwindrose-2.0.0.tar.gz was not a file it would
> have just moved on rather than halting. I didn't get much further before I
> had to go out. I have just come home again and sat down to do some more
> debugging and under the same situation the error is not being thrown and
> the extension is installing/uninstalling as expected.
>
> I feel this is a bit of a non-question but wanted to run it by you while I
> still had (some of) the logs. I will keep on this and try a diferent VM to
> see if I can reproduce the issue.
>
> Gary
>
> It worked for me on a Raspberry pi jessie.
>
from /home/weewx
sudo ./bin/wee_extension --install=/home/pi/Downloads/weewx_extensions/
stackedwindrose-2.0.0.tar.gz
Dan
