[Buildbot-devel] 0.7.11-RC1 - help test it out!

[Bailey, Darragh]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dustin J. Mitchell [mailto:dustin at zmanda.com] 
> Sent: 03 July 2009 23:02
> To: buildbot-devel list
> Subject: [Buildbot-devel] 0.7.11-RC1 - help test it out!
> 
> OK, I have tagged a release candidate.  The tarball is available for
> download here:
>   http://github.com/djmitche/buildbot/tarball/buildbot-0.7.11-rc1
> 
> Please download it, run the tests, and generally try it out.  I'd like
> to do the final release at the end of the week, so let's get any
> showstoppers found and fixed by then!
> 
> Dustin


buildbot.test.test_transfer.UploadDirectory tests are broken on python 2.3 since it doesn't support TarFile.extractall() functionality.

Problem is in remote_unpack function in steps/transfer.py

Created a ticket for the problem
http://buildbot.net/trac/ticket/582


I'll look into this in more detail later, but I suspect that it is also a problem on python 2.4 since the documentation states that the function was only added in 2.5.

Possible fix would be to use the other functions supplied by Tarfile to replicate the behaviour of extractall either for all versions or for python < 2.5

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Darragh Bailey

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