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FS#23952 - [namcap] crashes on some packages with symlinks

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Eric Belanger (Snowman) - Wednesday, 27 April 2011, 03:38 GMT
Last edited by Rémy Oudompheng (remyoudompheng) - Wednesday, 27 April 2011, 21:16 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Arch Projects
Status Closed
Assigned To Rémy Oudompheng (remyoudompheng)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

When running namcap on the enlightenment-1.0.8-1 package, namcap aborts with the following error:

$ namcap PKGBUILD *x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3.2/runpy.py", line 160, in _run_module_as_main
"__main__", fname, loader, pkg_name)
File "/usr/lib/python3.2/runpy.py", line 73, in _run_code
exec(code, run_globals)
File "/usr/lib/python3.2/site-packages/namcap.py", line 261, in <module>
process_realpackage(package, active_modules)
File "/usr/lib/python3.2/site-packages/namcap.py", line 114, in process_realpackage
rule.analyze(pkginfo, pkgtar)
File "/usr/lib/python3.2/site-packages/Namcap/rules/mimefiles.py", line 46, in analyze
f = tar.extractfile(entry)
File "/usr/lib/python3.2/tarfile.py", line 2221, in extractfile
return self.extractfile(self._find_link_target(tarinfo))
File "/usr/lib/python3.2/tarfile.py", line 2517, in _find_link_target
raise KeyError("linkname %r not found" % linkname)
KeyError: "linkname 'usr/share/applications//usr/share/e16/misc/e16.desktop-app' not found"
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Closed by  Rémy Oudompheng (remyoudompheng)
Wednesday, 27 April 2011, 21:16 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  Coming in next version 3.1.0
Comment by Rémy Oudompheng (remyoudompheng) - Wednesday, 27 April 2011, 06:21 GMT
Obviously, a bad conjunction of a symlink in the package and a forgotten sanity check in namcap... I'll fix this very soon.

EDIT: and also an upstreambug in the Python tarfile library that resolves symlinks by just concatening dirname with link target, which is a broken way of doing things.

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