[Pythonmac-SIG] Package Manager: Permissions Problem

[Richard Cooper]

I'll failing to get the 2.3b1 Package Manager to install readline.

After tinkering with pimp.py I've worked out that it's a file  
permissions issue. Putting "tf.debug=3" in PimpTarUnpacker.unpack()  
produces the following output when tf.extract(member, self._dir) is run.

tarfile: Permission denied  
'/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/lib/python2.3/ 
lib-dynload/readline.so'

It seems that while all the directories above it are owned by me,  
lib-dynload is owned by root/staff.


What is the correct permissions for  
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/lib/python2.3/ 
lib-dynload?  Does the installer need modifying or must pimp be run as  
root?

On a slightly unrelated note. the tarfile package in the standard  
library seems to have a very strange API. Commands that fail should  
(IMHO) throw exceptions not check a debug level and then maybe write a  
error message to sys.stdout. This would have made finding the cause of  
this error MUCH easier.

Regards,

Rich