Hello Martin, The Distutils-SIG mailing list is hosting several projects (4) which all have their own trackers, and for some their own checking/bugs mailing lists that receive these kind of automatic emails. This makes it possible for the people that want to follow those warning e-mails to register to those lists specifically. And for the others that are registered here to get less emails. Could you deactivate these automatic warning mails please? Thanks ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Max Bowsher <setuptools@bugs.python.org> Date: Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 12:00 PM Subject: [Distutils] [issue89] easy_install silently drop symlinks when auto-extracting tarball source distributions To: Distutils-SIG@python.org New submission from Max Bowsher <maxb@f2s.com>: Trying to determine why pytz installed by easy_install was broken, I located the following problem: When setuptools extracts a tarball source dist to install it, it silently drops any tar members which are neither files or directories. The problem is in archive_util.py which specifically tests "if member.isfile() or member.isdir():". I am uncertain why it would try to do this, but it is fatally incorrect to do so when the software being unpacked includes symlinks as a functional part of its sourcecode, as pytz does. ---------- messages: 444 nosy: maxb priority: bug status: unread title: easy_install silently drop symlinks when auto-extracting tarball source distributions _______________________________________________ Setuptools tracker <setuptools@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/issue89> _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig -- Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org | オープンソースはすごい! | 开源传万世，因有你参与