Re: [Distutils] [4suite] Re: SandboxViolation: open('/dev/urandom', 0) {}

On Saturday 21 October 2006 5:39 pm, Bob Ippolito wrote:

On 10/21/06, Joshua Boverhof wrote:

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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. """

This is a bug in setuptools' sandboxing. This is os.urandom() using *os.open* which uses integer constants not character constants.

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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?!

Generating UUIDs. Either way, I'll see what can be done to eliminate the need to generate the UUID in the first place. -- Jeremy Kloth http://4suite.org/