Hi, I think there is a bug in archive_util.unpack_archive. The following procedure has been tested with setuptools 0.6c7 under MacOSX 10.4.10, Mac OSX 10.5.1 and Ubuntu 7.10 Download archive : http://switch.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/textindexng/TextIndexNG3-3.1.8.... Test it : tar -xzf TextIndexNG3-3.1.8.tar.gz cd TextIndexNG3 ls -al total 64 drwxr-xr-x 21 gotcha gotcha 714 Mar 11 2006 . drwxr-xr-x 9 gotcha gotcha 306 Nov 20 15:53 .. drwxr-xr-x 5 gotcha gotcha 170 Mar 11 2006 CVS drwxr-xr-x 4 gotcha gotcha 136 Mar 11 2006 Extensions -rw-r--r-- 1 gotcha gotcha 658 Jun 4 2005 Makefile -rw-r--r-- 1 gotcha gotcha 6056 Mar 11 2006 TextIndexNG3.py -rw-r--r-- 1 gotcha gotcha 2226 Sep 21 2005 __init__.py drwxr-xr-x 8 gotcha gotcha 272 Mar 11 2006 adapters -rw-r--r-- 1 gotcha gotcha 3444 Dec 8 2005 browser.py -rw-r--r-- 1 gotcha gotcha 2034 Dec 7 2005 configure.zcml drwxr-xr-x 6 gotcha gotcha 204 Mar 11 2006 doc drwxr-xr-x 10 gotcha gotcha 340 Mar 11 2006 extension_modules -rw-r--r-- 1 gotcha gotcha 320 May 1 2005 header.txt drwxr-xr-x 5 gotcha gotcha 170 Mar 11 2006 i18n drwxr-xr-x 5 gotcha gotcha 170 Mar 11 2006 interfaces drwxr-xr-x 13 gotcha gotcha 442 Mar 11 2006 pt drwxr-xr-x 5 gotcha gotcha 170 Mar 11 2006 skins drwxr-xr-x 4 gotcha gotcha 136 Mar 11 2006 src drwxr-xr-x 8 gotcha gotcha 272 Mar 11 2006 tests -rw-r--r-- 1 gotcha gotcha 6 Mar 11 2006 version.txt drwxr-xr-x 3 gotcha gotcha 102 Mar 11 2006 www Unpack it with setuptools function : python2.4
from setuptools import archive_util archive_util.unpack_archive('TextIndexNG3-3.1.8.tar.gz', 'dest')
cd dest/ ls -al TextIndexNG3/ total 8 drwxrwxr-x 6 gotcha gotcha 204 Nov 20 15:57 . drwxrwxrwx 3 gotcha gotcha 102 Nov 20 15:57 .. -rw-rw-r-- 1 gotcha gotcha 3444 Dec 8 2005 browser.py drwxrwxr-x 8 gotcha gotcha 272 Nov 20 15:57 extension_modules drwxrwxr-x 5 gotcha gotcha 170 Nov 20 15:57 i18n drwxrwxr-x 13 gotcha gotcha 442 Nov 20 15:57 pt As you can see the output with unpack_archive in uncomplete. -- Godefroid Chapelle (aka __gotcha) http://bubblenet.be