#16161: If extra static files are added into STATIC_ROOT, they are transformed
to
symlinks in the next run of ``collectstatic -l``
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Reporter: gnotaras | Owner: aaugustin
Type: Bug | Status: new
Milestone: | Component: contrib.staticfiles
Version: 1.3 | Severity: Normal
Resolution: | Keywords:
Triage Stage: Accepted | Has patch: 0
Needs documentation: 0 | Needs tests: 0
Patch needs improvement: 0 | Easy pickings: 0
UI/UX: 0 |
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Comment (by jezdez):
Having thought more about the issue Luke was mentioning, I don't believe I
agree that his is an actual problem. In fact I might want old files (such
as pre-compressed stylesheet files) to stay in `STATIC_ROOT` to make sure
users with cached pages or templates referring to those files don't break.
In any case, I believe that the simplest way of "fixing" the issue Luke
mentioned is to simply to delete `STATIC_ROOT` manually, because Django
can't really forsee whether the files should stay around or not.
That actually makes me wonder if the simplest solution would be:
- add a ``--clear`` option that would try to delete the content of
`STATIC_ROOT` if the user wishes, with the downside of having to wait
**much** longer for collecstatic to run
- fix the linking support to actually check if the to be symlinked file
doesn't actually have the same name as the link
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