py25-setuptools 0.6c8 broken in a way I don't fully comprehend

[macports@…]

Sorry for being kind of verbose, I tried to trim the problem down in irc but nobody could help me... so here goes:

after installing py25-setuptools, easy_install does not work out of the box:

$ echo $PYTHONPATH /Users/ace/lib/python2.5/site-packages # this directory exists

$ easy_install-2.5 --install-dir /Users/ace/lib/python2.5/site-packages pyamf error: /opt/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/site.py: No such file or directory

this can be fixed: cd /opt/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages; sudo ln -s ../site.py

but then, after re-running said easy_install command, I cannot import pyamf - I have to do a

$ cd /Users/ace/lib/python2.5/site-packages $ unzip PyAMF-0.3.1-py2.5.egg

easy_install creates a suspicious pth file in /Users/ace/lib/python2.5/site-packages:

$ cat easy-install.pth import sys; sys.plen = len(sys.path) ./PyAMF-0.3.1-py2.5.egg import sys; new=sys.path[sys.__plen:]; del sys.path[sys.__plen:]; p=getattr(sys,'egginsert',0); sys.path[p:p]=new; sys.egginsert = p+len(new)

... from what I gather by reading site.py, a pth file should contain only path names, not python code.

also, it seems to copy site.py to that directory and then trip on it - if I re-run easy_install, I get:

$ easy_install-2.5 --install-dir /Users/ace/lib/python2.5/site-packages pyamf error: /Users/ace/lib/python2.5/site-packages/site.py is not a setuptools-generated site.py; please remove it.

[macports@…]

oops, markup got me. Let's try that again:

Sorry for being kind of verbose, I tried to trim the problem down in irc but nobody could help me... so here goes:

after installing py25-setuptools, easy_install does not work out of the box:

 $ echo $PYTHONPATH
 /Users/ace/lib/python2.5/site-packages    # this directory exists

 $ easy_install-2.5 --install-dir /Users/ace/lib/python2.5/site-packages
 pyamf
 error: /opt/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/site.py: No such file or
 directory

this can be fixed:

 cd /opt/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages; sudo ln -s ../site.py

but then, after re-running said easy_install command, I cannot import pyamf - I have to do a

 $ cd /Users/ace/lib/python2.5/site-packages
 $ unzip PyAMF-0.3.1-py2.5.egg

easy_install creates a suspicious pth file in /Users/ace/lib/python2.5 /site-packages:

 $ cat easy-install.pth
 import sys; sys.__plen = len(sys.path)
 ./PyAMF-0.3.1-py2.5.egg
 import sys; new=sys.path[sys.__plen:]; del sys.path[sys.__plen:];
 p=getattr(sys,'__egginsert',0); sys.path[p:p]=new; sys.__egginsert =
 p+len(new)

... from what I gather by reading site.py, a pth file should contain only path names, not python code.

also, it seems to copy site.py to that directory and then trip on it - if I re-run easy_install, I get:

 $ easy_install-2.5 --install-dir /Users/ace/lib/python2.5/site-packages
 pyamf
 error: /Users/ace/lib/python2.5/site-packages/site.py is not a setuptools-
 generated site.py; please remove it.

[macports@…]

I stand corrected: .pth files can contain python code. So that's not part of the problem.

[macports@…]

I kind of fixed it. This is the wrong approach:

 cd /opt/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages; sudo ln -s ../site.py

because that's a non-setuptools site.py. This is better:

 cd /opt/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages; sudo ln -s /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_python_py25-setuptools/work/setuptools-0.6c8/site.py 

after doing that, setuptools seems to work fine! However it might still be the wrong approach.

[mf2k (Frank Schima)]

Assigning to maintainer.

[macports@…]

Cc Me!

[blb@…]

This was recently fixed (see ticket #14912); run sudo port selfupdate to make sure you're up to date, then upgrade your py25-setuptools port with sudo port upgrade py25-setuptools.

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