Egg problem (~/.python-eggs)

[paul kölle]

Mike Orr wrote:
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> Can I make it use a different eggs directory?  Any other idea how to
> install a program using eggs on a server?

I had a similar issue with tracd on gentoo. My solution was setting
PYTHON_EGG_CACHE=/tmp/.egg_cache in /etc/conf.d/tracd and exporting that
var in /etc/init.d/tracd before calling start-stop-daemon, e.g.

export PYTHON_EGG_CACHE=${PYTHON_EGG_CACHE}
start-stop-daemon --start ....


cheers
 Paul