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-rw-r--r--Doc/distutils/sourcedist.rst8
-rw-r--r--Lib/distutils/command/sdist.py17
-rw-r--r--Lib/distutils/tests/test_sdist.py36
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS4
4 files changed, 61 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/distutils/sourcedist.rst b/Doc/distutils/sourcedist.rst
index 2cfdf69..739964e 100644
--- a/Doc/distutils/sourcedist.rst
+++ b/Doc/distutils/sourcedist.rst
@@ -162,6 +162,10 @@ This mechanism can be used when the default list of files is not enough.
Principle
---------
+.. versionadded:: 2.7
+ :file:`MANIFEST` files start with a comment indicated they are generated.
+ Files without this comment are not overwritten or removed.
+
The manifest template has one command per line, where each command specifies a
set of files to include or exclude from the source distribution. For an
example, let's look at the Distutils' own manifest template::
@@ -268,3 +272,7 @@ character, and ``[range]`` matches any of the characters in *range* (e.g.,
character" is platform-specific: on Unix it is anything except slash; on Windows
anything except backslash or colon.
+.. versionchanged:: 2.7
+ An existing generated :file:`MANIFEST` will be regenerated without
+ :command:`sdist` comparing its modification time to the one of
+ :file:`MANIFEST.in` or :file:`setup.py`.
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/command/sdist.py b/Lib/distutils/command/sdist.py
index 087ae9d..f2d2f94 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/command/sdist.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/command/sdist.py
@@ -349,8 +349,21 @@ class sdist(Command):
by 'add_defaults()' and 'read_template()') to the manifest file
named by 'self.manifest'.
"""
- self.execute(file_util.write_file,
- (self.manifest, self.filelist.files),
+ if os.path.isfile(self.manifest):
+ fp = open(self.manifest)
+ try:
+ first_line = fp.readline()
+ finally:
+ fp.close()
+
+ if first_line != '# file GENERATED by distutils, do NOT edit\n':
+ log.info("not writing to manually maintained "
+ "manifest file '%s'" % self.manifest)
+ return
+
+ content = self.filelist.files[:]
+ content.insert(0, '# file GENERATED by distutils, do NOT edit')
+ self.execute(file_util.write_file, (self.manifest, content),
"writing manifest file '%s'" % self.manifest)
def read_manifest(self):
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/tests/test_sdist.py b/Lib/distutils/tests/test_sdist.py
index f83b9f2..87adb45 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/tests/test_sdist.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/tests/test_sdist.py
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ setup(name='fake')
"""
MANIFEST = """\
+# file GENERATED by distutils, do NOT edit
README
inroot.txt
setup.py
@@ -364,7 +365,7 @@ class SDistTestCase(PyPIRCCommandTestCase):
finally:
f.close()
- self.assertEquals(len(manifest), 4)
+ self.assertEquals(len(manifest), 5)
# adding a file
self.write_file((self.tmp_dir, 'somecode', 'doc2.txt'), '#')
@@ -384,9 +385,40 @@ class SDistTestCase(PyPIRCCommandTestCase):
f.close()
# do we have the new file in MANIFEST ?
- self.assertEquals(len(manifest2), 5)
+ self.assertEquals(len(manifest2), 6)
self.assertIn('doc2.txt', manifest2[-1])
+ def test_manifest_marker(self):
+ # check that autogenerated MANIFESTs have a marker
+ dist, cmd = self.get_cmd()
+ cmd.ensure_finalized()
+ cmd.run()
+
+ f = open(cmd.manifest)
+ try:
+ manifest = [line.strip() for line in f.read().split('\n')
+ if line.strip() != '']
+ finally:
+ f.close()
+
+ self.assertEqual(manifest[0],
+ '# file GENERATED by distutils, do NOT edit')
+
+ def test_manual_manifest(self):
+ # check that a MANIFEST without a marker is left alone
+ dist, cmd = self.get_cmd()
+ cmd.ensure_finalized()
+ self.write_file((self.tmp_dir, cmd.manifest), 'README.manual')
+ cmd.run()
+
+ f = open(cmd.manifest)
+ try:
+ manifest = [line.strip() for line in f.read().split('\n')
+ if line.strip() != '']
+ finally:
+ f.close()
+
+ self.assertEqual(manifest, ['README.manual'])
def test_suite():
return unittest.makeSuite(SDistTestCase)
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index fdb61eb..4524f8b 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -29,6 +29,10 @@ Core and Builtins
Library
-------
+- Issue #8688: MANIFEST files created by distutils now include a magic
+ comment indicating they are generated. Manually maintained MANIFESTs
+ without this marker will not be overwritten or removed.
+
- Issue #7467: when reading a file from a ZIP archive, its CRC is checked
and a BadZipfile error is raised if it doesn't match (as used to be the
case in Python 2.5 and earlier).