Public bug reported: Following up on this thread: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/msg12023.html I can reproduce the problem: [cp ~/local/src/mailman-3.0.0a6] ./bin/buildout Traceback (most recent call last): File "./bin/buildout", line 17, in <module> import zc.buildout.buildout ImportError: No module named zc.buildout.buildout The eggs/zc-buildout* directory is missing the *.py files. Similarly, the z3c.recipe.sphinxdox and zc.recipe.egg. In the end, I removed the eggs/ directory completely, and got much further down the road. (I am new to eggs, so I am not sure this is the best idea.) Now, installation seems to fail at the logilab-common step. Develop: '/home/phil/local/src/mailman-3.0.0a6/.' Page at http://pypi.python.org/simple/argparse/ links to .py file(s) without version info; an index scan is required. Uninstalling filetemplates. Updating docs. Generated script '/home/phil/local/src/mailman-3.0.0a6/bin/docs'. Installing filetemplates. Updating interpreter. Installing pylint. Getting distribution for 'logilab-common>=0.50.1'. Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <module> File "/home/phil/local/src/mailman-3.0.0a6/eggs/setuptools-0.6c12dev_r85190-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 1712, in main with_ei_usage(lambda: File "/home/phil/local/src/mailman-3.0.0a6/eggs/setuptools-0.6c12dev_r85190-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 1700, in with_ei_usage return f() File "/home/phil/local/src/mailman-3.0.0a6/eggs/setuptools-0.6c12dev_r85190-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 1716, in <lambda> distclass=DistributionWithoutHelpCommands, **kw File "/usr/lib/python2.6/distutils/core.py", line 152, in setup dist.run_commands() File "/usr/lib/python2.6/distutils/dist.py", line 975, in run_commands self.run_command(cmd) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/distutils/dist.py", line 995, in run_command cmd_obj.run() File "/home/phil/local/src/mailman-3.0.0a6/eggs/setuptools-0.6c12dev_r85190-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 211, in run self.easy_install(spec, not self.no_deps) File "/home/phil/local/src/mailman-3.0.0a6/eggs/setuptools-0.6c12dev_r85190-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 427, in easy_install return self.install_item(None, spec, tmpdir, deps, True) File "/home/phil/local/src/mailman-3.0.0a6/eggs/setuptools-0.6c12dev_r85190-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 476, in install_item dists = self.install_eggs(spec, download, tmpdir) File "/home/phil/local/src/mailman-3.0.0a6/eggs/setuptools-0.6c12dev_r85190-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 626, in install_eggs unpack_archive(dist_filename, tmpdir, self.unpack_progress) File "/home/phil/local/src/mailman-3.0.0a6/eggs/setuptools-0.6c12dev_r85190-py2.6.egg/setuptools/archive_util.py", line 67, in unpack_archive driver(filename, extract_dir, progress_filter) File "/home/phil/local/src/mailman-3.0.0a6/eggs/setuptools-0.6c12dev_r85190-py2.6.egg/setuptools/archive_util.py", line 188, in unpack_tarfile while member.islnk() or member.issym(): AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'islnk' An error occurred when trying to install logilab-common 0.52.0. Look above this message for any errors that were output by easy_install. While: Installing pylint. Getting distribution for 'logilab-common>=0.50.1'. Error: Couldn't install: logilab-common 0.52.0 Let me know what else I can send you in regards to my environment. I am running a fairly fresh Ubuntu-10.04.1 with Python 2.6. ** Affects: mailman Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Corrupt eggs in mailman-3.0.0a6.tar.gz https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/656946 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mailman Coders, which is subscribed to GNU Mailman.