[Pythonmac-SIG] Ownership of installed Python on Mac

[Michael Foord]

On 9 August 2011 22:42, Ned Deily <nad at acm.org> wrote:

> In article <nad-12DCDD.14311109082011 at news.gmane.org>,
>  Ned Deily <nad at acm.org> wrote:
>
> > In article
> > <CAKCKLWwbY2DAywF=f_k=h9ovkHJjq+prKng60q9d5Xte+VGKjg at mail.gmail.com>,
> >  Michael Foord <fuzzyman at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I don't believe that is actually the case in Lion due to the changes
> > > pointed
> > > out by Nicholas.
> > Odd!  So far, this works for me on Lion with the current python.org
> > installer (3.2.1 at least).  Perhaps you can be more specific about
> > exactly how to reproduce what has changed for you.
>
> Ah, a thought!  I have been testing with a vanilla Lion system with a
> freshly-installed python.org Pythons.  In that case, the permissions of
> the files in /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework are being set as
> specified by the python.org installer.  Perhaps you are using a
> python.org Python that was on a system upgraded from Snow Leopard?  In
> that case, the Apple upgrade process may have mucked with the
> permissions of the existing files.  Reinstalling using the python.org
> installers would likely take care of that.  But it is something we
> should document and or consider changing.
>



Hmm... for 3.2 and 2.7 I was using Activestate installers not Python.org
ones - so perhaps it's their bug (in which case sorry for the noise).

Michael


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