[Mailman-Developers] japanesecodes-1.4.5 install prob

[Ron Jarrell]

At 05:51 AM 4/27/02 +0900, Tamito KAJIYAMA wrote:
>I got reports that bdist_wininst and bdist_rpm posed similar
>problems.  Attached below are the patches the reporters sent
>to me.  Honestly speaking I cannot figure out a right way that
>fixes problems on all platforms with any distutils options.
>
>Any comments and suggestions are very appreciated.
>
>Regards,
>
>--
>KAJIYAMA, Tamito <kajiyama@grad.sccs.chukyo-u.ac.jp>
>
>
>For bdist_wininst:
>--- setup.py.orig       Thu Apr 18 01:20:38 2002
>+++ setup.py    Thu Apr 18 01:20:16 2002
>@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
>      def finalize_options (self):
>          install.finalize_options(self)
>          self.distribution.data_files = [
>-            (self.install_purelib, ["japanese.pth"])]
>+            ("lib/site-packages", ["japanese.pth"])]
>
>  setup (name = "JapaneseCodecs",
>         version = "1.4.5",
>
>
>For bdist_rpm:
>--- setup.py.orig       Wed Apr 17 16:42:13 2002
>+++ setup.py    Thu Apr 18 19:50:49 2002
>@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
>  # Tamito KAJIYAMA <30 November 2000>
>  # $Id: setup.py,v 1.7 2002/04/17 03:53:31 kajiyama Exp $
>
>+import sys, os
>  from distutils.core import setup, Extension
>  from distutils.command.build_py import build_py
>  from distutils.command.install import install
>@@ -27,7 +28,8 @@
>      def finalize_options (self):
>          install.finalize_options(self)
>          self.distribution.data_files = [
>-            (self.install_purelib, ["japanese.pth"])]
>+            (os.path.join(sys.prefix, 'lib', 'python'+sys.version[:3], 
>'site-packages'),
>+            ["japanese.pth"])]
>
>  setup (name = "JapaneseCodecs",
>         version = "1.4.5",


Uhh, I would think this would make the problem worse.  These patches would 
*force* the .pth file into the system site-packages directory, even if the 
user has specified install options to force them into a private 
directory.  In this case mailman's install is trying to install the codecs 
into a private library that mailman uses.  mailman's install is 
specifically designed so as to *not* be installed as root, which makes it 
generally impossible for it to install the codecs if they *have* to go into 
site-packages...