* Christian Ebert on Thursday, August 28, 2008: > I am on MacOS 10.4.11, and have a minor recurring problem, when > using my own Python installation. > > I only stumbled over it when using http operations with the > Mercurial SCM, and my /tmp/ folder was clobbered with *.rsrc > temporary files. > > Some references: > http://www.selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial/2007-October/015039.html > and, as I forgot about it :( : > http://www.selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial/2008-August/021072.html > > Apparently for some stuff plat-mac/macresource.py needs to create > plat-mac/errors.rsrc.df.rsrc. If that fails, at least that is how > I read macresource.py, it creates them via mkstemp in /tmp/. > > Once I recognize the problem I can work around it by either > > $ sudo mv /tmp/tmp<whatever>.rsrc > /usr/local/lib/python2.5/plat-mac/errors.rsrc.df.rsrc > > or by temporarily "chown myname plat-mac", and, once the file is > created, "chown root plat-mac" again. > > My 2.5.2 install is under /usr/local, but other Mac users with > the same setup, do not have the problem. > > I don't need/want the Apple Framework install, and again, others > do not have the problem with this setup. > > Anyone any ideas? > > The best I could google was > http://bugs.python.org/issue763708 > but this seems encoding related.
I gather from the overwhelming reaction that I am the only one experiencing this ;-) However, if I can provide more info that might be useful, just tell me. TIA c -- Was heißt hier Dogma, ich bin Underdogma! [ What the hell do you mean dogma, I am underdogma. ] _F R E E_ _V I D E O S_ -->> http://www.blacktrash.org/underdogma/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
