1903648 - Static Files deleted from `STATICFILES_DIRS` erroneously persist in `STATIC_ROOT` after `lando collectstatic` runs

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Conduit :: Lando, defect)

Description

[Alex Hochheiden [:ahochheiden]]

The issue in bug 1903647 was obscured and not easily reproducible because of this. The files used to exist and were copied to STATIC_ROOT at one point on the local machine, but were then removed from STATICFILES_DIRS. These stale files persisted, and since the references to the files were not also removed, there was no local error. On a different machine that did not have these static files, there was an error due to the files no longer existing and never having being copied.

We can add the --clear argument to collectstatic which should clear the STATIC_ROOT before copying, thus removing all stale files and ensuring this error is always reproducible.

Comment 1

[BMO Github Automation]

Attachment: [mozilla-conduit/lando] static_files: clear `STATIC_ROOT` on `collectstatic` call (bug 1903648) (#79)