Confusing error message for "organize" when source refers to multiples items and destination doesn't end up with /
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Snapcraft |
Triaged
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Medium
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Unassigned | ||
snapcraft (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
A simple parts stenza with:
organize:
'*': foo
will lead to this error message:
Trying to organize file '*' to 'foo', but 'foo' already exists
Which isn't the case (foo doesn't exists in stage/ nor prime/).
I guess triggering situation is that * is a directory content with multiple items and destination is what looks like a filename to snapcraft. My bet is that the first item copy happens, and when trying to copy the second file/directory, we thus already have a "foo" file or directory corresponding to the first item to copy. Then, the error makes sense :)
However, this is confusing to the user.
The fix is of course to tell snapcraft to copy to a directory by appending /:
organize:
'*': foo/
My feeling is that the final / shouldn't be needed though and we should, in case of having a blob regexp, treat the right parts of the expression as a directory if there is more than one item matched.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: snapcraft 2.26
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-62-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.5
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Thu Feb 9 14:09:30 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-05-28 (1717 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
PackageArchitec
SourcePackage: snapcraft
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2014-10-31 (832 days ago)
Changed in snapcraft: | |
status: | New → Triaged |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
tags: | added: bitesize |