Re: On the dangers of PKGNAME=.

On Thursday 23 October 2003 14:54, you wrote:
> Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> > there would be redundant), I've been reduced to setting PKGNAME=. in KDE
> > recipes.
> This sounds like an ugly solution to me.  Setting $PKGNAME to "." is
> alsmost the same as setting it to "".

It is.

> Isn't this similar to using a package name "apps/kpilot"?  From this
> short snippit I would think that's the package name.

From this short snippet, yes. Unfortunately, this one recipe needs to install 
the following files under share:

./share/apps/kpilot/sysinfoconduit/Template.html
./share/apps/kpilot/sysinfoconduit/Template.txt
./share/services/sysinfo-conduit.desktop

(and several more).

This is a kind of fighting against the beerkaai; KDE just does it this way 
even if you'd prefer it didn't. 

> > I imagine this is because makedirs recurses and makes each component of
> > the requested path, and /tmp/kde/share and /tmp/kde/share/., while
> > separate components, are the same directory. The attached patch adds a
>
> I don't understand how this can go wrong.  Aap only calls os.makedirs()
> if the directory doesn't exist yet.  And os.makedirs() only recurses for
> directories that don't exist.  Did Python 2.2 have a bug in
> path.exists()?  Try this manually:


It is most peculiar:

hashbrown.ebn.kun.nl$python
Python 2.2.2 (#1, May 15 2003, 11:08:44)
[GCC 2.95.4 20020320 [FreeBSD]] on freebsd4
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import os
>>> os.makedirs("/tmp/./balkenende")
>>> os.makedirs("/tmp/kde/./balkenende")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.2/os.py", line 202, in makedirs
    makedirs(head, mode)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.2/os.py", line 203, in makedirs
    mkdir(name, mode)
OSError: [Errno 17] File exists: '/tmp/kde/.'
>>> os.makedirs("/tmp/kde/./balkenende")
>>> os.makedirs("/tmp/kde/./balkenende")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.2/os.py", line 203, in makedirs
    mkdir(name, mode)
OSError: [Errno 17] File exists: '/tmp/kde/./balkenende'


A second attempt (now with python 2.2.3, to see if it makes a diff):

>>> os.makedirs("/tmp/from/here/on/in")
>>> os.makedirs("/tmp/its/./all/downhill")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.2/os.py", line 203, in makedirs
    makedirs(head, mode)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.2/os.py", line 203, in makedirs
    makedirs(head, mode)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.2/os.py", line 204, in makedirs
    mkdir(name, mode)
OSError: [Errno 17] File exists: '/tmp/its/.'




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