[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-414316 ] Script installation failures

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Bugs item #414316, was updated on 2001-04-06 08:21
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Category: Distutils
Group: None
Status: Open
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Paul F. Dubois (dubois)
>Assigned to: Greg Ward (gward)
Summary: Script installation failures

Initial Comment:
The "scripts" feature installs scripts with no write 
permission. This is a good thing. But when copying 
scripts down into build/scripts or installing into the 
target python, there are failures because distutils 
does not have write permission on the target when it 
has been previously installed. I assume attempts to 
uninstall are going to have similar difficulties.

In a related matter, we have had to create 
an "artificial user", which is a big pain, who owns 
the files installed because Distutils doesn't work 
right when the file has group write but is owned by 
another developer.

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>Comment By: Tim Peters (tim_one)
Date: 2001-04-07 13:04

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Assigned to Greg Ward.

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