[issue6972] zipfile.ZipFile overwrites files outside destination path

Thomas W. Barr added the comment: A fair point. I was thinking that we could query the OS about whatever filesystem the path is on, but this wouldn't work for a file that hasn't been created yet. The issue with extractall() isn't just that it can extract over existing files, i

[issue6972] zipfile.ZipFile overwrites files outside destination path

Thomas W. Barr added the comment: Even if we can't fix things for this release, presumably it's not too late to fix things for 2.7, right? Yes, there certainly are cases where you might want to have creative usage of symlinks and stored paths to allow overwriting existing files, a

[issue644744] bdist_rpm fails when installing man pages

Thomas Vander Stichele added the comment: Attaching a reworked patch of the patch attached in http://bugs.python.org/issue1169193 This worked for me on f-11, with python 2.6 -- keywords: +patch nosy: +thomasvs Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file15383/distutils.bdist_rpm.patch

[issue644744] bdist_rpm fails when installing man pages

Thomas Vander Stichele added the comment: Hi Toshio, I'd probably also go for the wildcarding, but you'd still need to 'change' the INSTALLED_FILES file to do so, so you'd still use the same mechanism. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue644744] bdist_rpm fails when installing man pages

Thomas Vander Stichele added the comment: Ok, so this patch can go in as is except for changing .gz to * ? -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue644

[issue644744] bdist_rpm fails when installing man pages

Thomas Vander Stichele added the comment: What do you mean, it's frozen ? Without the patch you're already breaking a third party tool, namely rpm. What other tool worth caring about that uses bdist_rpm could possibly get broken by fixing an obvious bug ? Why is it so impossible

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