[Distutils] Unexpected error <python setup.py install_data --root /tmp>

[Tres Seaver]

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David Cournapeau wrote:
> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Kent Tenney <ktenney at gmail.com> wrote:
>> In a docutils svn checkout.
>>
>> [docutils/trunk/docutils]$ python setup.py install --root /tmp
>> OK
>>
>> [docutils/trunk/docutils]$ python setup.py install_data --root /tmp
>>
>> distutils.errors.DistutilsFileError:
>> could not delete
>> '/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/docutils/parsers/rst/include/README.txt':
>> Permission denied
> 
> Well, do you have writing permision in that directory ? Generally, you
> need admin priviledges to write anything in  /usr/local, and tmp is
> writable by anyone,

The issue is that distutils is ignoring the '--root' passed to
'install_data'.


Tres.
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