[virt-tools-list] virtinst-0.500.6 question, clean build environment issues

[Jason Helfman]

Hi Cole,

I've applied this patch, and ran it again, and the same thing happens:

I applied the patch as it was raised by someone at FreeBSD.

Here is the end of the log:

===> Building package for py27-virtinst-0.500.6_1
Deleting py27-virtinst-0.500.6_1
=== Checking filesystem state
Deleting py27-urlgrabber-3.9.1
Deleting libvirt-0.9.3
Deleting gnutls-2.12.7
Deleting libxml2-2.7.8_1
Deleting py27-curl-7.19.0_1
Deleting python27-2.7.1_1
Deleting pkg-config-0.25_1
Deleting libgcrypt-1.4.6
Deleting curl-7.21.3_2
Deleting ca_root_nss-3.12.9
Deleting libgpg-error-1.10
Deleting gettext-0.18.1.1
Deleting libiconv-1.13.1_1
=== Checking filesystem state after all packages deleted
================================================================
list of files present on clean system but missing after everything was
deinstalled)
./usr/local/share/locale/he missing
./usr/local/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES missing
./usr/local/share/locale/hr missing
./usr/local/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES missing
./usr/local/share/locale/lt missing
./usr/local/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES missing
================================================================
build of /usr/ports/net-mgmt/virtinst ended at Mon Jul 18 00:19:30 UTC 2011

Thanks,
Jason

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 10:23:30AM -0400, Cole Robinson thus spake:
>On 07/08/2011 05:26 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 02:17:08PM -0700, Jason Helfman wrote:
>>> Right. Here is a link to the current bsd.port.mk file.
>>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk?rev=1.687;content-type=text%2Fx-cvsweb-markup
>>
>> It appears to run:
>>
>>   pkg_delete -f $name
>>
>> and pkg_delete (according to [1]) looks very much like RPM and other
>> packaging tools, ie. sensible.
>>
>> However I'm not any closer to understanding why those locale files
>> would be deleted after the deinstall.  It appears to be some
>> interaction between the pkg_* tools and files that virt-install
>> modifies, but in what way I don't know.
>>
>> Rich.
>>
>> [1] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pkg_delete&sektion=1
>>
>
>Thanks for looking into it Rich, doesn't make much sense to me either,
>nothing in the virtinst build process seems to be touching those files.
>
>Jason, does applying the following patch to virtinst make any difference
>(it just disables all .po building and installing). If not, something
>must be funky on the bsd side, otherwise maybe some side effect of the
>po commands we run is causing the bsd package tool to prune those files
>on uninstall?
>
>Thanks,
>Cole
>
>diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
>index 659ddd4..c708bdc 100755
>--- a/setup.py
>+++ b/setup.py
>@@ -277,6 +277,7 @@ class build(_build):
>         if not os.path.exists("build/po"):
>             os.makedirs("build/po")
>
>+        """
>         for filename in glob(pjoin(os.getcwd(), 'po', '*.po')):
>             filename = os.path.basename(filename)
>             lang = os.path.basename(filename)[0:len(filename) - 3]
>@@ -286,6 +287,7 @@ class build(_build):
>
>             print "Building %s from %s" % (newname, filename)
>             os.system("msgfmt po/%s -o %s" % (filename, newname))
>+        """
>
>         _build.run(self)
>         builddir = self.build_lib
>@@ -317,6 +319,7 @@ class install_data(_install_data):
>     """ custom install_data command to prepare i18n files for install"""
>
>     def run(self):
>+        """
>         dirlist = os.listdir("build/po")
>         for lang in dirlist:
>             if lang != "." and lang != "..":
>@@ -329,6 +332,7 @@ class install_data(_install_data):
>
>                 # Add these to the datafiles list
>                 datafiles.append(toadd)
>+        """
>         _install_data.run(self)
>
> setup(name='virtinst',
>

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