[Pythonmac-SIG] Round 2 with Leopard+Python

[Christopher Barker]

Brian Granger wrote:

> But, in Leopard, sudo does not preserve environment variables:

> The solution currently is to install all packages to locations that
> don't require sudo to write to.

Or use "sudo -s", which starts a shell, then set your env vars:

$ sudo -s
$ export FOO=/tmp
$ python -c "import os; print os.environ['FOO']"

should work.

But I agree, a change like this in sudo behavior is going to cause a lot 
of problems!

-CHB



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