setup and colons in filenames
Ken Brown
kbrown@cornell.edu
Thu Oct 26 17:04:00 GMT 2017
On 10/26/2017 12:14 PM, Jon Turney wrote:
> On 25/10/2017 20:23, Jon Turney wrote:
>> On 25/10/2017 16:50, Ken Brown wrote:
>>> This is a followup to the thread started here:
>>>
>>> Â Â https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-patches/2017-q4/msg00012.html
>>>
>>> Currently setup's parse_filename is not correctly parsing filenames
>>> in /etc/setup/installed.db that contain colons, as explained in the
>>> above thread. It would be easy to fix this by just ripping out the
>>> 'base' function, except for the fact that parse_filename is called by
>>> ScanFindVisitor::visitFile.
>>
>> Since older setup cannot correctly parse an installed.db containing
>> filenames like that, we should probably bump the installed.db version
>> at the same time as fixing this.
>>
>>> I don't know enough about WIN32_FIND_DATA to know whether the call to
>>> 'base' is needed for that use of parse_filename. If so, is it safe
>>> to skip all colons in that setting, since we're dealing with Win32
>>> filenames and they don't see the colons in Cygwin filenames?
>>
>> Yeah, that's about as far as I got before giving up...
>>
>>> Do we need two versions of parse_filename, one that calls base and
>>> one that doesn't?
>>
>> This might be the easiest solution :)
>
> It gets better:Â We only go down the whole route of using
> ScanFindVisitor::visitFile() from do_from_local_dir() if we couldn't
> find an .ini file.
>
> If there's no .ini file found, we look at every package archive and
> parse the version out of the archive filename.
>
> This seems a really odd thing to do, as we've no idea about the
> dependencies of these packages, so installing them is unlikely work well.
>
> Removing all the setup.ini files from my package directory, the good
> news is that WIN32_FIND_DATA just returns the filename, not a full
> pathname, so this use of base() isn't needed, either.
>
> The bad news is that setup then exits (this works ok in 2.882, so
> something's got broken somewhere...)
What happens is that ScanFindVisitor::visitFile doesn't set various
attributes of the packages it creates (such as SDesc). This leads to a
crash when the SolvableVersion methods (such as SDesc()) return null
pointers that get dereferenced by PickView.
> I'm kind of tempted to remove this mis-feature.
I agree strongly. I was about to write an email suggesting the same
thing when I saw your mail. Unless you're already working on it, I'll
be glad to prepare a patch series that does this and also takes care of
whatever is needed for supporting colons in installed.db
Ken
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