[Zope-dev] How to report stuff with the collector down?

[Lennart Regebro]

Hi all!

I tried to figure out how to report bugs and stuff without the collector,
but couldn't find anything. Any official way?

Anyway, I found this minor bug in FileStorage.py. If you try to pack a db
with a packdate that is earlier than the date of the first object in the
database, you get a "Errno 22, Invalid argument" error. This is because
read_index bails out already at the first object and returns position 4L.
Whe _reduntant_pack then tries to seek(-8) it of course fails. Now, I
haven't tried tha absolute latest versions of Zope, but a check in the CVS
indicated that the problem is still there.

I chenged this part of FileStorage.py (row 1275 in v1.71.2.3):

            packpos, maxoid, ltid = read_index(
                file, name, index, vindex, tindex, stop,
                read_only=1,
                )

            if self._redundant_pack(file, packpos):
                raise FileStorageError, (
                    'The database has already been packed to a later time\n'
                    'or no changes have been made since the last pack')

to this:

            packpos, maxoid, ltid = read_index(
                file, name, index, vindex, tindex, stop,
                read_only=1,
                )

            if packpos == 4L or self._redundant_pack(file, packpos):
                raise FileStorageError, (
                    'The database has already been packed to a later time\n'
                    'or no changes have been made since the last pack')

Note the "if packpos == 4l or" part. This means that you get the message
that it's already packed.

I have also some other small "improvements" (on MailHost, f ex) that I'd
like to submit to the community.
Well, *I* think it's an improvement. :-)