export: Fix finding manage.py to export usermessages.

We were using a hardcoded relative path, which doesn't work if you're
not running this from the root of the Zulip checkout.

As part of fixing this, we need to make `LOCAL_UPLOADS_DIR` an
absolute path.

Fixes #11581.

zerver/lib/export.py

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ import ujson
 import subprocess
 import tempfile
 import shutil
+import sys
 from scripts.lib.zulip_tools import overwrite_symlink
 from zerver.lib.avatar_hash import user_avatar_path_from_ids
 from analytics.models import RealmCount, UserCount, StreamCount
@@ -1422,7 +1423,8 @@ def launch_user_message_subprocesses(threads: int, output_dir: Path) -> None:
     logging.info('Launching %d PARALLEL subprocesses to export UserMessage rows' % (threads,))
 
     def run_job(shard: str) -> int:
-        subprocess.call(["./manage.py", 'export_usermessage_batch', '--path',
+        subprocess.call([os.path.join(settings.DEPLOY_ROOT, "manage.py"),
+                         'export_usermessage_batch', '--path',
                          str(output_dir), '--thread', shard])
         return 0
 

zproject/dev_settings.py

@@ -6,7 +6,13 @@ import os
 import pwd
 from typing import Set
 
-LOCAL_UPLOADS_DIR = 'var/uploads'
+# We want LOCAL_UPLOADS_DIR to be an absolute path so that code can
+# chdir without having problems accessing it.  Unfortunately, this
+# means we need a duplicate definition of DEPLOY_ROOT with the one in
+# settings.py.
+DEPLOY_ROOT = os.path.join(os.path.realpath(os.path.dirname(__file__)), '..')
+LOCAL_UPLOADS_DIR = os.path.join(DEPLOY_ROOT, 'var/uploads')
+
 FORWARD_ADDRESS_CONFIG_FILE = "var/forward_address.ini"
 # Check if test_settings.py set EXTERNAL_HOST.
 EXTERNAL_HOST = os.getenv('EXTERNAL_HOST')