[Distutils] two bugs

[Bastian Kleineidam]

Hello,

I discovered a minor glitch in install_data.py, line 59, in
get_outputs(self):
replace
        return self.outfiles
with
        return self.outfiles or []
to ensure a list is returned and not the None object.

Another bug I found:
When I run
# python setup.py sdist bdist_rpm
I get the following traceback:
[snipped]
running bdist_rpm
writing 'build/bdist.linux2-i686/rpm/SPECS/linkchecker.spec'
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "setup.py", line 100, in ?
    data_files = [('locale/de/LC_MESSAGES',
  File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/distutils/core.py", line 111, in setup
    dist.run_commands ()
  File "setup.py", line 32, in run_commands
    self.run_command (cmd)
  File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/distutils/dist.py", line 757, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run ()
  File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/distutils/command/bdist_rpm.py", line 290, in run
    source = sdist.get_archive_files()[0]
TypeError: unsubscriptable object

Here is why:
bdist_rpm.py:283:  sdist = self.reinitialize_command ('sdist')
now sdist is _not_ finalized
bdist_rpm.py:288:  self.run_command('sdist')
now sdist is _still_ not finalized! this is because we have run
'sdist' before and wrote this in the cache:
dist.py:751: if self.have_run.get (command):
                 return
and therefore sdist.get_archive_files() returns None which is not
subscriptable

I have no fix for this bug. Probly you should insert
in Distribution.reinitialize_command() the line
self.have_run[commandname] = 0
before the return.


Bastian