def deal_with_stub(localObjRoot, objID, version,
                   metaData, dataDir, auxDir, searchFile = None):
    """thoughts regarding how many (unnecessary) times I'm going through
    the SearchFile... if there's data, the time spent on metadata is
    probably not a big deal...  so only this one, when we're only dealing
    with metadata, somewhat matters.  I think I'm still going to write
    through, to make things simpler.  the only optimization to take care
    of is to not to re-open the SearchFile over and over again."""
    
    success,searchFile = EditObject.do_update_metadata(
        localObjRoot, objID, version, metaData, searchFile = searchFile)
    if not success:
        ryw.give_bad_news('ProcessDiscs: EditObject failed: ' +
                          objID + '#' + str(version), logging.error)
        return (False, None)

    if not os.path.exists(auxDir):
        return (True, searchFile)

    oldPaths = objectstore.name_version_to_paths_aux(
        localObjRoot, objID, version)
    oldAuxDir = oldPaths[2]

    try:
        #ryw.give_news3('auxDir: ' + auxDir, logging.info)
        #ryw.give_news3('oldAuxDir: ' + oldAuxDir, logging.info)

        #ryw.give_news3('force remove: ' + oldAuxDir, logging.info)
        ryw.force_remove(oldAuxDir, 'deal_with_found_objects')
        #ryw.give_news3('recursive copy: ' + auxDir + ' -> ' + oldAuxDir,
        #               logging.info)
        shutil.copytree(auxDir, oldAuxDir)
    except:
        ryw.give_bad_news('ProcessDiscs: failed to overwrite auxi dirs: ' +
                          auxDir + ' -> ' + oldAuxDir, logging.critical)
        return (False, searchFile)

    return (True, searchFile)
def cleanup_incoming(tmpdir, jobFile):
    #ryw.cleanup_path(tmpdir,  'ReadIncomingCDStack.cleanup:')
    ryw.force_remove(tmpdir,  'ReadIncomingCDStack.cleanup:')
    ryw.cleanup_path(jobFile+'.JRQ', 'ReadIncomingCDStack.cleanup:')
    ryw.cleanup_path(jobFile+'.ERR', 'ReadIncomingCDStack.cleanup:')
    ryw.cleanup_path(jobFile+'.DON', 'ReadIncomingCDStack.cleanup:')