Recorded plist has different files than the ones installed

[yurivict]

The FreeBSD package builder uses the --record {plist-file} command to record the plist. The recorded plist differs from the actually installed files:

===> Checking for items in STAGEDIR missing from pkg-plist
Error: Orphaned: bin/qb2qmasm
Error: Orphaned: bin/qmasm
Error: Orphaned: bin/qmasm-ground-state
Error: Orphaned: bin/qmasm-qbsolv
===> Checking for items in pkg-plist which are not in STAGEDIR
Error: Missing: bin/qb2qmasm.py
Error: Missing: bin/qmasm-ground-state.py
Error: Missing: bin/qmasm-qbsolv.py
Error: Missing: bin/qmasm.py
===> Error: Plist issues found.

[spakin]

As I don't use FreeBSD, I can use your help in correcting this. Is there some change I should make to QMASM's setup.py file to pacify FreeBSD's package builder?

If you could you send me a pull request, that would be great.

[yurivict]

You can run python setup.py install --record plist.txt and observe that the files there aren't the same that are installed.

[spakin]

Yes, that does provide the information. Clearly, it's due to my executable scripts being distributed as filename.py but installed as just filename. How should I fix my setup script to handle this case?

[yurivict]

1. Rename and move files: qmasm.py->scripts/qmasm, qb2qmasm.py->scripts/qb2qmasm, etc. in your repository.
2. Apply this patch:

--- setup.py.orig       2019-06-10 22:36:49 UTC
+++ setup.py
@@ -15,10 +15,6 @@ class install(_install):
     def run(self):
         # Install, then remove <script>.py, keeping only <script>.
         _install.run(self)
-        for scr in script_list:
-            pyscript = os.path.join(self.install_scripts, scr + ".py")
-            script = os.path.join(self.install_scripts, scr)
-            os.rename(pyscript, script)
 
 setup(name = "QMASM",
       version = "3.0",
@@ -30,6 +26,6 @@ setup(name = "QMASM",
       license = "BSD",
       keywords = "quantum assembler d-wave",
       packages = find_packages(),
-      scripts = [s + ".py" for s in script_list],
+      scripts = ["scripts/"+s for s in script_list],
       cmdclass = {"install": install}
 )