[Zope-dev] products not found when initializing zodb

[Wichert Akkerman]

(I've filed this at https://bugs.launchpad.net/zope2/+bug/147201 as well)

For a Plone site I am using a separate ZODB for the catalog so I can
tune it a bit. I do this using the standard method in zope.conf:

<zodb_db catalog>
  mount-point /plone.org/portal_catalog
  container-class Products.CMFPlone.CatalogTool.CatalogTool
  <zeoclient>
    server 127.0.0.1:5010
    storage 2
    name catalogstorage
    var /srv/plone.org/buildout/parts/instance1/var
  </zeoclient>
</zodb_db>

This works perfect in a normal Zope2 instance. But when I use buildout
CMFPlone is stored in a separate directory that is listed in a products
line in zope.conf:

instancehome /srv/plone.org/buildout/parts/instance1
products /srv/plone.org/buildout/products
products /srv/plone.org/buildout/parts/productdistros
products /srv/plone.org/buildout/parts/plone

the result is that Zope no longer starts:

Error: The object named by "Products.CMFPlone.CatalogTool.CatalogTool" could not be imported
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/srv/plone.org/buildout/parts/zope2/lib/python/Zope2/Startup/datatypes.py", line 94, in importable_name
    package = __import__(n, g, g, component)
ImportError: No module named CMFPlone


which is a bit of a showstopper for this deployment. Does anyone know how this
can be fixed or worked around? There is a fair amount of deep magic to
the way Zope handles Products.* so I'ld like a few suggestions before I delve
into the deep.

Wichert.

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