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

[Alan Franzoni]

On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Reinout van Rees <reinout at vanrees.org> wrote:
> 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.

I have filed a ticket on zc.buildout bugtracker, you could use the
"this affects me" feature.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/zc.buildout/+bug/685638

> 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.

Yes, I suppose it's a kind of interference. I don't really know who's
causing the problems, I think we'd need some feedback from both
zc.buildout and ubuntu developers, but I can see Ubuntu still packages
1.4.3 even in Natty - there might be a reason for that.


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