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So I think I noticed a safety issue with the new s...

high-yak-85899

03/14/2023, 11:54 PM

So I think I noticed a safety issue with the new symlink feature. It seems like you can call

export

with the symlink flag and it rightfully says it puts an immutable venv in place. However, if you do this without clearing the export that didn't use the symlink, you still have

pip

and

python

in the

bin

directory. Is that expected?

high-yak-85899

03/15/2023, 12:12 AM

I was also seeing some weird behavior so I nuked

named_caches

and then ran the export again and it linked to a directory that I just deleted

high-yak-85899

03/15/2023, 12:13 AM

Using

--no-local-cache

ran things up properly

high-yak-85899

03/15/2023, 12:46 AM

oh interesting. Following the

--no-local-cache

, a subsequent

./pants export

symlinked back to a removed directory

high-yak-85899

03/15/2023, 12:48 AM

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~/devel/monorepo (move-dev-reqs)$ rm -rf ~/.cache/pants/
~/devel/monorepo (move-dev-reqs)$ ./pants export --export-symlink-python-virtualenv --resolve=python-default
Bootstrapping Pants using /usr/bin/python3.9
Creating the virtualenv PEX.
Downloading the Pex PEX.
SHA256 fingerprint of <https://github.com/pantsbuild/pex/releases/download/v2.1.103/pex> verified.
Installing pantsbuild.pants==2.15.0 into a virtual environment at /home/nathanael/.cache/pants/setup/bootstrap-Linux-x86_64/2.15.0_py39
New virtual environment successfully created at /home/nathanael/.cache/pants/setup/bootstrap-Linux-x86_64/2.15.0_py39.
Wrote symlink to immutable virtualenv for python-default (using Python 3.8.10) to dist/export/python/virtualenvs/python-default
~/devel/monorepo (move-dev-reqs)$ ls dist/export/python/virtualenvs/python-default/
3.8.10
~/devel/monorepo (move-dev-reqs)$ ls -lh dist/export/python/virtualenvs/python-default/3.8.10 
lrwxrwxrwx 1 nathanael nathanael 138 Mar 14 18:47 dist/export/python/virtualenvs/python-default/3.8.10 -> /home/nathanael/.cache/pants/named_caches/pex_root/venvs/c978a68158a371b508ccdfb785cf9438c7adcf3b/ddab8011daaee380698ac2fb9701af18c90c03f6
~/devel/monorepo (move-dev-reqs)$ ls ~/.cache/pants/named_caches/
ls: cannot access '/home/nathanael/.cache/pants/named_caches/': No such file or directory

high-yak-85899

03/15/2023, 12:48 AM

even more concerning. Removing the entire cache contents still points things back to this no-name directory

high-yak-85899

03/15/2023, 12:52 AM

going to move to a bug ticket

high-yak-85899

03/15/2023, 12:56 AM

https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/issues/18508

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