[Distutils] Sandbox violation help

[Dave Peterson]

Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> At 02:15 PM 12/6/2007 -0600, Dave Peterson wrote:
>> PPS: I do believe other users have reported the same issues on other
>> systems but we've never quite figured out what the cause is.  IIRC,
>> telling them to manually download the source tarball and do a 'python
>> setup.py install' seems to work just fine.
>>
>> > Processing enthought.traits-2.0.1b1.tar.gz
>> > Running enthought.traits-2.0.1b1/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir
>> > /tmp/easy_install-Edu8TK/enthought.traits-2.0.1b1/egg-dist-tmp-IIITHW
>> > error: Setup script exited with error: SandboxViolation:
>> > 
>> open('/tmp/easy_install-WZrKOz/enthought.tvtk-2.0.0b2/temp/tmpTTJH2x/zZe82A 
>>
>> > ', 131266, 384) {}
>
> This looks like a bug that was fixed about a year ago: the sandboxing 
> for os.open() (which is what the above appears to be calling) wouldn't 
> allow you to write files *anywhere*, even if it was under a safe 
> directory location.
>
> That would explain why you don't get the problem, but the user does.  
> Check their setuptools version, using:
>
>     python -c "from pkg_resources import require; print 
> require('setuptools')"
>
> The bug was fixed in 0.6c5, so anything older will have this problem 
> with anything that uses os.open() to write files.
>

Thanks!

-- Dave