Re: [PyX-devel] easy_install error

[André W. <wo...@us...>]

Hi,

the install script does precisely what was intended by the authors. We  
want to place some data to a shared data directory /usr/local/share/ 
pyx and we also want to create a systemwide pyxrc at /etc/pyxrc. While  
those locations can be altered by some options to the setup.py script,  
they are very reasonable defaults. I don't know why distutils does not  
properly support such install locations by default.

Does somebody know any better?


André


Am 22.04.2008 um 00:37 schrieb Michael Hearne:

>
> I just tried using easy_install to install Pyx on a Linux machine,  
> using the following command:
>
> easy_install pyx
>
> and got the error below.   Is there a workaround for this?  Having  
> an easily-installable PyPI package for Pyx is really useful for end- 
> users like me!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike
>
> Running PyX-0.10/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /tmp/easy_install- 
> _D_bmc/PyX-0.10/egg-dist-tmp-r1bHsH
> error: Setup script exited with error: SandboxViolation: mkdir('/usr/ 
> local/share/pyx',) {}
>
> The package setup script has attempted to modify files on your system
> that are not within the EasyInstall build area, and has been aborted.
>
> This package cannot be safely installed by EasyInstall, and may not
> support alternate installation locations even if you run its setup
> script by hand.  Please inform the package's author and the  
> EasyInstall
> maintainers to find out if a fix or workaround is available.
>
>
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