discuss: Filesystem paths in LDP documentation
Subject:
Re: Filesystem paths in LDP documentation
From:
Charles Curley ####@####.####
Date:
13 Apr 2002 21:41:07 -0000
Message-Id: <20020413154031.D4277@trib.com>
On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 03:41:30PM -0500, David Merrill wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 03:58:45PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > Hi,
> > The bug opens a wider issue, though. To what extent do readers of this
> > list think it's reasonable for distributions to patch their LDP packages
> > to refer to locally-appropriate paths? On the one hand, it may alleviate
> > confusion when readers find documents referring to paths that aren't on
> > their systems. On the other hand, the document probably won't be perfect
> > for each distribution anyway unless the author planned it that way, I
> > suspect most authors would rather that distributions didn't make local
> > changes without passing them back, and I doubt I have time to go around
> > carefully patching the whole LDP all the time.
>
> It's always better to get the patch accepted upstream if possible. If
> you have to patch locally, then so be it. The LDP will work with you
> to get the fix added by the author, or we'll fix it ourselves if the
> author does not.
Speaking as an author, I welcome such errata.
Perhaps LDP should also ecourage authors do things like, "This file is
found in the Blah directory. It is this path on Red Hat X.Y, that path
on Debian m.n, and may be elsewhere on your system." That will make it
easy to add new paths as readers or distributors send errata. This may
be a candidate for the Authors Guide.
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<type 'exceptions.IOError'> | Python 2.5.2: /usr/bin/python Wed Jul 3 16:00:22 2024 |
A problem occurred in a Python script. Here is the sequence of
function calls leading up to the error, in the order they occurred.
/opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/main.py in main() |
424
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425 if path is not None:
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426 main_path(path)
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427 else:
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428 main_form()
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global main_form = <function main_form at 0x95e6c6c> |
/opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/main.py in main_form() |
378 except ImportError:
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379 die(ctxt, "Invalid command")
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380 module.do(ctxt)
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381
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382 def main():
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module = <module 'commands.showmsg' from '/opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/commands/showmsg.pyc'>, module.do = <function do at 0x95f8bc4>, global ctxt = {'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 2, 'HTTP_X_FORWA...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'} |
/opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/commands/showmsg.py in do(ctxt={'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 2, 'HTTP_X_FORWA...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}) |
18 write(html('msg-pager') % ctxt)
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19 write('<hr>')
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20 sub_showmsg(ctxt, ctxt[MSGNUM])
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21 write('<hr>')
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22 write(html('msg-pager') % ctxt)
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global sub_showmsg = <function sub_showmsg at 0x95e61ec>, ctxt = {'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 2, 'HTTP_X_FORWA...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, global MSGNUM = 'msgnum' |
/opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/globalfns.py in sub_showmsg(ctxt={'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 2, 'HTTP_X_FORWA...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, msgnum=2784) |
229 format_timestamp(ctxt, ctxt)
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230 write(html('msg-header') % ctxt)
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231 rec_showpart(ctxt, msg, 0)
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232 write(html('msg-footer') % ctxt)
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233 ctxt.pop()
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global rec_showpart = <function rec_showpart at 0x95e61b4>, ctxt = {'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 2, 'HTTP_X_FORWA...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, msg = <email.message.Message instance at 0x9656f4c> |
/opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/globalfns.py in rec_showpart(ctxt={'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 2, 'HTTP_X_FORWA...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, part=<email.message.Message instance at 0x9656f4c>, partnum=1) |
205 else:
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206 for p in part.get_payload():
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207 partnum = rec_showpart(ctxt, p, partnum+1)
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208 else:
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209 write(html('msg-sep') % ctxt)
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partnum = 1, global rec_showpart = <function rec_showpart at 0x95e61b4>, ctxt = {'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 2, 'HTTP_X_FORWA...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, p = <email.message.Message instance at 0x9656fcc> |
/opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/globalfns.py in rec_showpart(ctxt={'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 2, 'HTTP_X_FORWA...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, part=<email.message.Message instance at 0x9656fcc>, partnum=2) |
208 else:
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209 write(html('msg-sep') % ctxt)
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210 sub_showpart(ctxt, part)
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211 return partnum
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212
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global sub_showpart = <function sub_showpart at 0x95e6144>, ctxt = {'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 2, 'HTTP_X_FORWA...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, part = <email.message.Message instance at 0x9656fcc> |
/opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/globalfns.py in sub_showpart(ctxt={'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 2, 'HTTP_X_FORWA...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, part=<email.message.Message instance at 0x9656fcc>) |
164 type = ctxt[TYPE] = part.get_content_type()
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165 ctxt[FILENAME] = part.get_filename()
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166 template = html('msg-' + type.replace('/', '-'))
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167 if not template:
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168 template = html('msg-' + type[:type.find('/')])
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global template = <function template at 0x95dee9c>, global html = <function html at 0x95deed4>, type = 'application/pgp-signature', type.replace = <built-in method replace of str object at 0x965f100> |
/opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/globalfns.py in html(name='msg-application-pgp-signature') |
40
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41 def html(name):
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42 return template(name + '.html')
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43
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44 def xml(name):
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global template = <function template at 0x95dee9c>, name = 'msg-application-pgp-signature' |
/opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/globalfns.py in template(filename='msg-application-pgp-signature.html') |
31 except IOError:
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32 if not _template_zipfile:
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33 _template_zipfile = zipfile.ZipFile(sys.argv[0])
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34 try:
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35 f = _template_zipfile.open(n).read()
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global _template_zipfile = None, global zipfile = <module 'zipfile' from '/usr/lib/python2.5/zipfile.pyc'>, zipfile.ZipFile = <class zipfile.ZipFile at 0x9577a7c>, global sys = <module 'sys' (built-in)>, sys.argv = ['-c', '/opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20'] |
/usr/lib/python2.5/zipfile.py in __init__(self=<zipfile.ZipFile instance at 0x95f5c8c>, file='-c', mode='r', compression=0, allowZip64=False) |
337 self.filename = file
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338 modeDict = {'r' : 'rb', 'w': 'wb', 'a' : 'r+b'}
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339 self.fp = open(file, modeDict[mode])
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340 else:
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341 self._filePassed = 1
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self = <zipfile.ZipFile instance at 0x95f5c8c>, self.fp = None, builtin open = <built-in function open>, file = '-c', modeDict = {'a': 'r+b', 'r': 'rb', 'w': 'wb'}, mode = 'r' |
<type 'exceptions.IOError'>: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '-c'
args =
(2, 'No such file or directory')
errno =
2
filename =
'-c'
message =
''
strerror =
'No such file or directory'