python package installed with setuptools: fixing permission of the PKG-INFO file

[Mojca Miklavec]

On 23 March 2018 at 11:35, Enrico Maria Crisostomo wrote:
> On 23 Mar 2018, at 11:06, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>>
>> I would say this in an upstream issue that should be reported and
>> fixed. (That said, we could probably also have some code to
>> automatically fix these kind of problems after extracting the files.)
>
> Thanks Mojca.  I'll see whether I can report it upstream, then.  Yes, if this file should have an expected permission mask perhaps it would be desirable to fix it and emit a warning.
>
>> For the moment by far the easiest thing to do would be to use
>>    system "chmod +r ${worksrcpath}/wherever-the-file-is"
>> probably in post-extract phase.
>
> Thanks, I'll try that then.  The python version appear multiple times in the path: I'll try with a plain replacement, hoping the path structure is not python version-dependent.
>
>> You can do it in post-destroot, but why not fix it immediately? (I
>> guess that other files in the tarball might need fixing as well.)
>
> Good point.  I'll do that in post-extract.  I didn't know whether the setup code was making some assumptions (some obvious to me) and set it as such.  From your answer I infer that's not the case, in which case the post-extract phase is probably a better place to do it.

During post-extract there shouldn't be any strange python version in the path.

Mojca