[Distutils] zc.buildout fails to use system-installed dep?

[Reinout van Rees]

On 12/05/2010 11:14 PM, Alan Franzoni wrote:
> I've verified this happens all the times on Ubuntu 10.10, both 32 and
> 64 bit. I don't know if it's Ubuntu's or zc.buildout's fault; I've
> opened a ticket.

I have the same problem on ubuntu.  I never managed to find out what the 
real reason is, but my guess is that it's ubuntu's way of installing 
python packages for multiple python versions.  You have a 
/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/ directory, but also a 
/usr/lib/pyshared/python2.6/, for instance.  Something somewhere is 
doing some funny sys.path mangling, probably ubuntu.

The end result is that I still haven't gotten buildout 1.5.x to work on 
ubuntu with the system packages that I need.  I'm still at 1.4.4 with 
the custom 1.4-x-only bootstrap, in combination with osc.recipe.sysegg


I hope to have some debugging-time in January, as it is pretty 
irritating not to be able to use buildout 1.5.x ;-)


Reinout

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