GNU bug report logs - #20081
patch-source-shebangs crashes on broken symlink

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Tomáš Čech <sleep_walker <at> suse.cz>

Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 15:03:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Tomáš Čech <sleep_walker <at> suse.cz>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Andreas Enge <andreas <at> enge.fr>, 20081 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20081: patch-source-shebangs crashes on broken symlink
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 10:36:33 +0100
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On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 10:30:55AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>Tomáš Čech <sleep_walker <at> suse.cz> skribis:
>
>> On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 06:32:30PM +0100, Andreas Enge wrote:
>>>On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 04:02:11PM +0100, Tomáš Čech wrote:
>>>> I'm trying to create package for taskwarrior.
>>>> Source tarball contain symlinks to nonexisting file `task':
>>>
>>>I would argue that this is not a bug in guix, but in the tarball.
>>>You can remove the link with an additional phase before 'configure, see, for
>>>instance, the dvdisaster package in cdrom.scm.
>>
>> I agree with you that the fishy part is in tarball, but we could make
>> build more robust. Getting backtrace is not nice way to end a build.
>
>I agree.  I think we should patch ‘find-files’ in core-updates to not
>follow symlinks:
>

>diff --git a/guix/build/utils.scm b/guix/build/utils.scm
>index a5a6167..9cbddcd 100644
>--- a/guix/build/utils.scm
>+++ b/guix/build/utils.scm
>@@ -288,7 +288,8 @@ matches REGEXP."
>                                     file (strerror errno))
>                             result)
>                           '()
>-                          dir)
>+                          dir
>+                          lstat)
>         string<?))
> 
> 

>
>Thoughts?

Ignoring symlinks is nice solution.
I'd add comment:

We won't touch broken symlinks, symlinks pointing within the sources will be
fixed anyway.

Thanks!

S_W
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