Sun Nov 08 19:55:28 2020: Request 132067 was acted upon.
Transaction: Correspondence added by [email protected]
Queue: PAR-Dist
Subject: fix for Archive::Zip related test failures due to symlinks
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Owner: Nobody
Requestors: [email protected]
Status: new
Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=132067 >
On Thu Mar 05 17:43:33 2020, SLAFFAN wrote:
> Many of the current CPAN test failures have this error text (links
> below):
>
> error: Could not extract /tmp/par4D_mq/blib/META.yml safely: /tmp is
> an existing symbolic link
>
>
>
> One simple fix is to ensure _unzip_to_tmpdir (or perhaps _unzip) uses
> a path with symlinks resolved.
>
> For example in _unzip_to_tmpdir:
>
> ...
> my $path = $tmpdir;
> $path = File::Spec->catdir($tmpdir, $args{subdir}) if defined
> $args{subdir};
> ### add these two lines
> require Cwd;
> $path = Cwd::realpath($path);
>
> _unzip(dist => $dist, path => $path);
> ...
>
>
> Tested on macos 10.15.
>
> Let me know if you'd prefer a patch file, and whether it should be in
> _unzip_to_tmpdir or more localised within _unzip.
>
> Shawn.
Could you post your current WIP patch? Happy to test on BigSur RC. Thanks.
