[Distutils] creating rpms of setuptools, sqlobject and formencode

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 06:30 PM 10/22/2005 +0200, Pau Aliagas wrote:
>On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
>
>>>+ /usr/bin/python setup.py build
>>>---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>This script requires setuptools version 0.6a5 to run (even to display
>>>help).  I will attempt to download it for you (from
>>>http://cheeseshop.python.org/packages/2.3/s/setuptools/), but
>>>you may need to enable firewall access for this script first.
>>>I will start the download in 15 seconds.
>>>---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>Downloading 
>>>http://cheeseshop.python.org/packages/2.3/s/setuptools/setuptools-0.6a5-py2.3.egg
>>>But it is installed in:
>>>/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/setuptools-0.6a5-py2.3.egg
>
>Everything is installed in:
>/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/setuptools-0.6a5-py2.3.egg/

How did you install it there?  Via easy_install, or using some other 
process?  I suspect that you installed it some way that didn't include the 
setuptools.pth file.

Check for a /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/setuptools.pth file.  It's 
probably missing.  Alternately, you might see if there is an 
easy-install.pth, or some other .pth file that points to the setuptools egg.

If there is none, I'm guessing you installed a broken RPM or other broken 
packaging of setuptools, and you should report the problem to whoever 
packaged it.