[Distutils] [issue160] bootstrap of virtualenv.py fails on setuptools 12.4

[Hannes Doyle]

New submission from Hannes Doyle:

Hi,

We are running virtualenv 1.7.2 with python 2.7.3

when executing the following 
mkdir pyenv
virtualenv.py -p /<python path>/bin/python2.7 pyenv

I get the errors shown in the err.txt

But if I do the following it works fine:
mkdir pyenv 
wget 'https://pypi.python.org/packages/2.7/s/setuptools/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg#md5=fe1f997bc722265116870bc7919059ea'
wget 'https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/pip/pip-6.0.8.tar.gz#md5=2332e6f97e75ded3bddde0ced01dbda3'
virtualenv.py --never-download -p /<python path>/bin/python2.7 pyenv

And since this started to show at 2015-03-04 17:00 CET I suspect that it's related to the release of 12.4 that were released on the same day.
I'm not sure if it might be here or in the virtualenv forum this should be posted though.

Regards Hannes

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files: err.txt
messages: 748
nosy: marulkan
priority: bug
status: unread
title: bootstrap of virtualenv.py fails on setuptools 12.4
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/file173/err.txt

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Running virtualenv with interpreter /<python path>/bin/python2.7
New python executable in pyenv/bin/python2.7
Also creating executable in pyenv/bin/python
Installing setuptools................................................
Complete output from command /home/marulkan/pyenv/bin/python2.7 -c "#!python
\"\"\"Bootstra...sys.argv[1:])

" --always-copy -U setuptools:
Downloading http://pypi.python.org/packages/2.7/s/setuptools/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg
Searching for setuptools
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/setuptools/
Best match: setuptools 12.4
Downloading https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/setuptools/setuptools-12.4.zip#md5=b088ed7a43a93a1fd1fcabdf73bfa0bf
Processing setuptools-12.4.zip
Running setuptools-12.4/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /tmp/easy_install-GP0RiD/setuptools-12.4/egg-dist-tmp-7KgrMA
/<python path>/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py:267: UserWarning: Unknown distribution option: 'src_root'
warnings.warn(msg)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 279, in <module>
File "<string>", line 214, in main
File "/home/marulkan/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 1712, in main
File "/home/marulkan/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 1700, in with_ei_usage
File "/home/marulkan/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 1716, in <lambda>
File "/<python path>/lib/python2.7/distutils/core.py", line 152, in setup
dist.run_commands()
File "/<python path>/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 953, in run_commands
self.run_command(cmd)
File "/<python path>/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 972, in run_command
cmd_obj.run()
File "/home/marulkan/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 211, in run
File "/home/marulkan/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 446, in easy_install
File "/home/marulkan/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 476, in install_item
File "/home/marulkan/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 655, in install_eggs
File "/home/marulkan/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 930, in build_and_install
File "/home/marulkan/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 919, in run_setup
File "/home/marulkan/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg/setuptools/sandbox.py", line 62, in run_setup
File "/home/marulkan/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg/setuptools/sandbox.py", line 105, in run
File "/home/marulkan/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg/setuptools/sandbox.py", line 64, in <lambda>
File "setup.py", line 186, in <module>
File "/<python path>/lib/python2.7/distutils/core.py", line 152, in setup
dist.run_commands()
File "/<python path>/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 953, in run_commands
self.run_command(cmd)
File "/<python path>/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 972, in run_command
cmd_obj.run()
File "/home/marulkan/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg/setuptools/command/bdist_egg.py", line 167, in run
File "/<python path>/lib/python2.7/distutils/cmd.py", line 326, in run_command
self.distribution.run_command(command)
File "/<python path>/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 972, in run_command
cmd_obj.run()
File "/home/marulkan/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg/setuptools/command/egg_info.py", line 169, in run
File "/home/marulkan/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 1959, in load
ImportError: <module 'setuptools.command.egg_info' from '/home/marulkan/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg/setuptools/command/egg_info.py'> has no 'write_setup_requirements' attribute
----------------------------------------
...Installing setuptools...done.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/<virtualenv path>/bin/virtualenv.py", line 2429, in <module>
main()
File "/<virtualenv path>/bin/virtualenv.py", line 942, in main
never_download=options.never_download)
File "/<virtualenv path>/bin/virtualenv.py", line 1052, in create_environment
search_dirs=search_dirs, never_download=never_download)
File "/<virtualenv path>/bin/virtualenv.py", line 598, in install_setuptools
search_dirs=search_dirs, never_download=never_download)
File "/<virtualenv path>/bin/virtualenv.py", line 570, in _install_req
cwd=cwd)
File "/<virtualenv path>/bin/virtualenv.py", line 1020, in call_subprocess
% (cmd_desc, proc.returncode))
OSError: Command /home/marulkan/pyenv/bin/python2.7 -c "#!python
\"\"\"Bootstra...sys.argv[1:])

" --always-copy -U setuptools failed with error code 1