[Distutils] sandbox violation

[Tres Seaver]

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Flávio Codeço Coelho wrote:
> Em Ter, 2007-04-17 às 20:04 -0400, Phillip J. Eby escreveu:
> 
>> At 04:16 PM 4/17/2007 -0300, Flávio Codeço Coelho wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have a setup.py that has recently stopped working with a 
>>> sandbox-violation error message. During installation I install files under 
>>> /usr/share
>>>
>>> Is installation of file outside the python path forbidden now?
>> It is when an egg is being built, since anything not installed to the 
>> temporary directory where the egg is being built will not get included in 
>> the egg.
>>
> 
> Is this a recent change to easy_install? cause my packages used to
> install nicely with easy_instal up to a few weeks ago...
> 
>>> Is ther any workaraound?
>> Don't use easy_install or build an egg.  Eggs must be self-contained, and 
>> easy_install builds eggs before installing them.  That's a feature of eggs 
>> -- i.e., they don't put files all over your system.
> 
> 
> I agree with this philosophy. But does it mean that if want my packages
> to install files to other locations, I am forever banned from the
> setuptools  world? ;-) Please say it is not true...;-)

I think I understood Phillip's response to say that you can *install*
files outside of the egg;  you just can't put them there during the
*build* phase, which is when the sandboxing is enforced.

This is "best practice" for other systems as well:  people would be
extremely upset if 'make' by itself deployed files outside the local
directory, rather than doing that effort during 'make install'.  An
additional benefit is that users can *build* the egg without any special
privileges (as with RPMs, for instance).


Tres.
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