On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 9:12 AM, Ionel Cristian Mărieș <contact@ionelmc.ro> wrote:
​Worth considering​, if you can afford it, to have a local patch that you apply before building. Then you have all the necessary fixes (like remove the setup_requires) in that patch file.

yup -- that's a option -- but a really painful one!

I did, in fact, find an incantation that works:

$PYTHON setup.py install --single-version-externally-managed --record=/tmp/record.txt 

but boy, is that ugly, and hard to remember  why not a --no-deps flag?

(and I have no idea what the --record thing is, or if it's even neccessary...

-Chris


This is a popular approach in Debian packages - they can have all kinds of fixes for the upstream code.



Thanks,
-- Ionel Cristian Mărieș, http://blog.ionelmc.ro



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