Ignore missing files

In large projects that use dozens of third-party libraries, invariably, some library will reference a url(../../..somefile) which doesn’t exist. When running manage.py collectstatic with django-pipeline, this will result in an incredibly unhelpful error like:

ValueError: The file 'tinymce/js/tinymce/plugins/compat3x/img/icons.gif' could not be found with <pipeline.storage.PipelineCachedStorage object at 0x1ca6750>.

Not only does pipeline not mention which file attempts to include this file, searching for img/icons.gif myself results in 42 matches. Even if I could locate the issue, I can’t easily fix the missing file, since it’s a third-party library. This means pipeline is effectively blocking all my deployments because of a missing file I don’t even use.

Ideally, pipeline should report which resource is referencing a missing file and allow specifying an option to ignore it. This is very similar to the https://github.com/adamcharnock/django-pipeline-forgiving fork, although I think this would be a good idea for the main branch.

[Eonasdan]

actually @karolyi I disabled all the issues. I don’t have time to work on the picker at the moment.

“No is a complete sentence”.

Guess you’ll have to get over yourself

[czue]

Had this same issue using lodash and (via dependency) firebug-lite. The error I was getting was

ValueError: The file 'lodash/vendor/firebug-lite/skin/xp/condBorders.png' could not be found with <django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.ManifestStaticFilesStorage object at 0x7fd3ed9b9ad0>.

And the solution as mentioned above is to run:

./manage.py collectstatic --ignore=firebug-lite