[Distutils] easy_install self upgrade/version check b ug

[P.J. Eby]

At 01:42 PM 6/11/2009 -0700, jason wrote:
>(Currently using setuptools 0.6c5 (/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages))
>error: Setup script exited with 2
>$ easy_install -U setuptools
>...
>Processing dependencies for setuptools

You omitted the one part of the output that would tell us what the 
problem is; i.e. where the "easy_install -U setuptools" installed 
itself to.  (Apparently, it's not /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages!)