[Distutils] Recent buildout failure in Mailman 3

P.J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Tue Oct 12 17:46:24 CEST 2010


At 11:46 AM 10/11/2010 -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote:
>On Oct 08, 2010, at 11:37 PM, P.J. Eby wrote:
>
> >At this point, I'm a bit stumped, as I don't know enough about how tarballs
> >are supposed to work internally; should I just whip up a patch for the
> >situation where the path has no slashes in it (the logilab case), or do I
> >need to do something more sophisticated in the general case?
>
>I don't know, but the fix you did commit fixes the build problem for me.

But it still doesn't fully extract the archive.  The problem should 
now be fixed entirely in the latest snapshot -- in addition to not 
matching the path processing correctly, I had an extraneous argument 
being passed to getmember().



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