Fixtures with absolute path names get loaded multiple times

[Russell Keith-Magee]

Report from msoulier on django-users:

I'm loading a fixture with 2500 objects in it into postgres 7.4.

For some reason, loaddata is looking in a lot of additional places
than the file I'm handing it.

[root@vmware-espresso teleworker]# PYTHONPATH=.. python manage.py loaddata /root/clients.json
Loading '/root/clients.json' fixtures...
Installing json fixture '/root/clients' from '/usr/lib/python2.3/site-
packages/django/contrib/auth/fixtures'.
Installing json fixture '/root/clients' from '/usr/lib/python2.3/site-
packages/django/contrib/contenttypes/fixtures'.
Installing json fixture '/root/clients' from '/usr/lib/python2.3/site-
packages/django/contrib/sessions/fixtures'.
Installing json fixture '/root/clients' from '/etc/e-smith/web/django/
teleworker/dashboard/fixtures'.
Installing json fixture '/root/clients' from '/etc/e-smith/web/django/
teleworker/icps/fixtures'.
Installing json fixture '/root/clients' from '/etc/e-smith/web/django/
teleworker/clients/fixtures'.
Installing json fixture '/root/clients' from '/etc/e-smith/web/django/
teleworker/advanced/fixtures'.
Installing json fixture '/root/clients' from '/etc/e-smith/web/django/
teleworker/proxies/fixtures'.
Installing json fixture '/root/clients' from '/etc/e-smith/web/django/
teleworker/metrics/fixtures'.
Installing json fixture '/root/clients' from '/etc/e-smith/web/django/
teleworker/js/fixtures'.
Installing json fixture '/root/clients' from absolute path.
Installed 27500 object(s) from 11 fixture(s)

[Russell Keith-Magee]

I suspect the issue here stems from the way that os.path.join operates on absolute path names. As a result of this, the fixture specified as an absolute path is 'found' at every possible location.

[btoll <btoll@…>]

I believe this report is a duplicate of ticket 6436 which has a patch.

[Russell Keith-Magee]

Agreed. Duplicate of #6436.