[Distutils] Brand new, clean server, set up from scratch, buildbot still fails

[Steve Steiner]

http://pastebin.com/m69796bc5

This is running on a bare system, after figuring out which development  
tools were needed, all the version control systems necessary etc.  I  
have all that captured in my Fabric script so we're all set for being  
able to duplicate it.

I have NOT installed anything into the system Python at all.  In fact,  
other than the tools necessary to pull the products out of VCS, and  
the compilers and such, I haven't installed (or done) anything to the  
system at all.  That's kind of the point.  We want to be able to go  
from bare metal to running buildbot completely automatically.

I don't quite understand what this thing is supposed to be doing but  
I'm sure it's not doing everything it needs to do to get itself  
"bootstrapped"; on a fresh Ubuntu install, anyway.

BTW, on my OS X development system, running the system Python 2.6.1,  
it doesn't have any trouble at all except for this little gem early in  
the process.

/usr/bin/python "-c" "from setuptools.command.easy_install import  
main; main()" "-mUNxd" "/Users/ssteiner/Dropbox/work/distutils-builbot/ 
eggs/tmptMBdZk" "-q" "/Users/ssteiner/Dropbox/src/twisted_trunk"
path=/Users/ssteiner/Dropbox/work/distutils-builbot/eggs/ 
setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg

/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/Pyrex-0.9.8.5-py2.6.egg/Pyrex/ 
Compiler/Errors.py:17: DeprecationWarning: BaseException.message has  
been deprecated as of Python 2.6
   self.message = message
unrecognized .svn/entries format in
conftest.c:1:23: error: sys/epoll.h: No such file or directory
conftest.c:1:23: error: sys/epoll.h: No such file or directory
conftest.c:1:23: error: sys/epoll.h: No such file or directory
lipo: can't open input file: /var/folders/28/28Xggq0cGXqLpT1Uz5Gk4E++ 
+TI/-Tmp-//ccOmCair.out (No such file or directory)
Got Twisted 8.2.0-r27376.
Picked: Twisted = 8.2.0-r27376
Getting required 'zope.interface'
   required by collective.buildbot 0.3.5.
   required by Twisted 8.2.0-r27376.

...
  and then it carries on.

However, when trying to run it with /bin/test, something tries to  
refer to "trunk-checkout" when the python trunk was actually checked  
out into python-trunk.

(~/work/distutils-builbot)# bin/test
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "bin/test", line 12, in <module>
     os.chdir(python_trunk)
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/Users/ssteiner/work/ 
distutils-builbot/parts/trunk-checkout/python'

All in all, I really can't get it to build or run anywhere at this  
point...

S