Sun Nov 08 20:21:12 2020: Request 132067 was acted upon.
Transaction: Correspondence added by nie...@users.sourceforge.net
Queue: PAR-Dist
Subject: fix for Archive::Zip related test failures due to symlinks
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Owner: Nobody
Requestors: slaf...@cpan.org
Status: open
Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=132067 >
On Sun Nov 08 19:55:28 2020, nie...@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
> On Thu Mar 05 17:43:33 2020, SLAFFAN wrote:
> > Many of the current CPAN test failures have this error text (links
> > below):
> >
> > error: Could not extract /tmp/par4D_mq/blib/META.yml safely: /tmp is
> > an existing symbolic link
> >
> >
> >
> > One simple fix is to ensure _unzip_to_tmpdir (or perhaps _unzip) uses
> > a path with symlinks resolved.
> >
> > For example in _unzip_to_tmpdir:
> >
> > ...
> > my $path = $tmpdir;
> > $path = File::Spec->catdir($tmpdir, $args{subdir}) if defined
> > $args{subdir};
> > ### add these two lines
> > require Cwd;
> > $path = Cwd::realpath($path);
> >
> > _unzip(dist => $dist, path => $path);
> > ...
> >
> >
> > Tested on macos 10.15.
> >
> > Let me know if you'd prefer a patch file, and whether it should be in
> > _unzip_to_tmpdir or more localised within _unzip.
> >
> > Shawn.
>
> Could you post your current WIP patch? Happy to test on BigSur RC. Thanks.
Never mind. I see the provided snippet now. It works with BigSur and the system
perl-5.28(.2)
