[Distutils] SandboxViolation: open('/dev/urandom', 0) {}

[Bob Ippolito]

On 10/21/06, Joshua Boverhof <JRBoverhof at lbl.gov> wrote:
> 4Suite is listed as one of my project's setuptools
> "install_requires", but when I attempt to install on Mac OSX-10.4.8
> using python-2.5 I get an error:
>
>
> """
> Reading http://www.python.org/pypi/4Suite-XML/1.0
> Best match: 4Suite-XML 1.0
> Downloading http://cheeseshop.python.org/packages/source/4/4Suite-XML/
> 4Suite-XML-1.0.zip#md5=0b61c214cd03ecb2f673b52b316c0a84
> Processing 4Suite-XML-1.0.zip
> Running 4Suite-XML-1.0/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /tmp/
> easy_install-_X4a0x/4Suite-XML-1.0/egg-dist-tmp-uBG5YU
> error: Setup script exited with error: SandboxViolation: open('/dev/
> urandom', 0) {}
>
> The package setup script has attempted to modify files on your system
> that are not within the EasyInstall build area, and has been aborted.
>
> This package cannot be safely installed by EasyInstall, and may not
> support alternate installation locations even if you run its setup
> script by hand.  Please inform the package's author and the EasyInstall
> maintainers to find out if a fix or workaround is available.
> """
>
>
> So setuptools isn't allowing 4Suite to access the random number
> generator during build/installation.  I can easily subvert this, in
> case anyone else just wants to make this work:
>
> """
> def main():
>      from setuptools import sandbox
>      sandbox.DirectorySandbox._ok = lambda self,path: True
>
> """
>
> Of course I'd like a better way of doing this, maybe I missed
> something in the setuptools docs on configuration?

WTF is a build script doing with a random number generator?!

-bob