[issue15205] distutils dereferences symlinks on Mac OS X but not on Linux
New submission from Ollie Walsh : Hi, This is related to #12585. Distutils sdist builds a package tree using hardlinks to the source if supported by the OS. This is then tarred/zipped/etc... If the source contains symbolic links to external files: On Linux (and apparently Solaris) they are not dereferenced and the resulting package is broken. On OSX (and apparently all BSD kernels) a hardlink to a symlink will dereference the symlink first and the resulting tgz package is ok. However I would expect issue #8876 to be more likely as the symlink could references a different filesystem which would case hardlinking to fail. In #12585 I assume that zip dereferences the symlinks which masks the issue. distutils2 appears to always copy instead of hardlinking resolving all of these issues. distutils can be monkey patched to do the same: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.distutils.devel/2078 -- assignee: eric.araujo components: Distutils messages: 164149 nosy: eric.araujo, ollie.wa...@gmail.com, tarek priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: distutils dereferences symlinks on Mac OS X but not on Linux type: behavior versions: Python 2.7 ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue15205> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue15205] distutils dereferences symlinks on Mac OS X but not on Linux
Ollie Walsh added the comment: Hi, > As I said in the other bug, symlinks handling in not fully specified Yes. I've mostly submitted a bug report in case anybody else encounters the problem. > At present I am not sure if having symlinks in a distribution makes sense I agree. In my case symlinks are being used to restructure a large legacy module into smaller packages. When creating sdists the symlinks are dereferenced on another developer's host (OSX) and all is well but they on my host (Linux) I get packages with broken symlinks. > BTW the example you link to is not at all monkey-patching My mistake. When I worked around this issue I did monkey-patch sdist. I also just wrapped the source path is os.path.readlink() before hardlinking. I think the approach in that link is a much better solution so I have referred to it instead. -Ollie -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue15205> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue15205] distutils dereferences symlinks on Mac OS X but not on Linux
Ollie Walsh added the comment: PS that should be os.readlink() -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue15205> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
