The sb_bnfilter.py script installed by spambayes does not run properly. This script should attempt to execute another script installed by the spambayes package called sb_bnserver.py, but the sb_bnfilter.py script attempts to execute a script called sb_bnserver.py-2.6-2.6 instead. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install spambayes-1.1_alpha6 2. Run /usr/bin/sb_bnfilter.py 3. Notice the errors indicating that '/usr/bin/sb_bnserver.py-2.6-2.6' does not exist Actual Results: > /usr/bin/sb_bnfilter.py Attempted to set [Storage] persistent_use_database with invalid value True (<type 'str'>) '/usr/bin/sb_bnserver.py-2.6-2.6' does not exist Attempted to set [Storage] persistent_use_database with invalid value True (<type 'str'>) '/usr/bin/sb_bnserver.py-2.6-2.6' does not exist Attempted to set [Storage] persistent_use_database with invalid value True (<type 'str'>) '/usr/bin/sb_bnserver.py-2.6-2.6' does not exist Attempted to set [Storage] persistent_use_database with invalid value True (<type 'str'>) '/usr/bin/sb_bnserver.py-2.6-2.6' does not exist Expected Results: These errors should not appear, and the script should execute /usr/bin/sb_bnserver.py-2.6 either by running this script directly or by using the /usr/bin/sb_bnserver.py wrapper script. Disabling the generation of the python wrapper scripts by the ebuild also solves this problem.
Post the output of: emerge -ptv python:2.6
(In reply to comment #1) > Post the output of: emerge -ptv python:2.6 > My amd64 system is maintained by paludis. Here's the equivalent output: These packages will be installed: * dev-lang/python :2.6 [R 2.6.4-r1] <target> Reasons: sys-apps/portage-2.1.7.17:0::installed berkdb -build -doc -examples gdbm -ipv6 ncurses readline sqlite ssl threads -tk (wide-unicode) -wininst xml build_options: -optional_tests -split strip -trace -preserve_work Total: 1 package (1 rebuild) The problem also exists on a x86 chroot system I have that uses portage: These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] dev-lang/python-2.6.4-r1 USE="berkdb gdbm ncurses readline ssl threads (wide-unicode) xml -build -doc -examples -ipv6 -sqlite -tk -wininst" 0 kB Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB
This problem is probably fixed in newer versions of dev-lang/python. Please test with dev-lang/python-2.6.5-r1.
(In reply to comment #3) > This problem is probably fixed in newer versions of dev-lang/python. Please > test with dev-lang/python-2.6.5-r1. > The good news is that upgrading to python-2.6.5-r1 did help. Now the sb_bnserver.py wrapper script is found by sb_bnfilter.py, and it does execv the sb_bnserver.py-2.6 script. The bad news is that line 161 of the sb_bnserver.py-2.6 script contains the following statement which quietly fails: from sb_filter import HammieFilter The ebuild has made sb_filter.py into a wrapper script for sb_filter.py-2.6, so HammieFilter is no longer defined in sb_filter.py.
Created attachment 228239 [details] ebuild for import problem with python wrappers Here's my current ebuild to work around the problem with the python import statement in sb_bnserver.py-2.6. It creates a hard link to sb_filter.py-2.6, and then the import statement is rewritten to point at the new file.
I added better workaround in mail-filter/spambayes-1.1_alpha6-r1.
