Re: [Fink-devel] Replacing setuptools-py with distribute-py

[Daniel J. <dan...@gm...>]

On Sep 28, 2010, at 6:43 AM, Kurt Schwehr wrote:

> Hi Daniel and python packagers,
> 
> 
> I've added distribute to py2[4-7], given it a Provides setuptools, and Conflicts 
> 
> setuptools.
> 
> If your package depends or builddepends on setuptools, please test it with 
> distribute.
> 
> -kurt
> (goatbar)
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> Sent: Tue, September 21, 2010 10:08:19 AM
> Subject: Replace setuptools-py with distribute-py?
> 
> I'm running into a problem packaging python packages that require distribute 
> instead of setuptools. To make matters worse, they will automatically download 
> distribute and try to replace an already installed setuptools! This seems to be 
> becoming common in the Python world. Fortunately, --build-as-nobody catches 
> this, but it also makes the packages uninstallable except on py31. Distribute is 
> 
> fully backward compatible with setuptools, so this shouldn't break anything, and 
> 
> in any case, setuptools is generally considered deprecated.
> 
> Now there are a few packages that have a versioned BuildDepends on 
> setuptools-py, so simply relying on Provides: setuptools-py%type_pkg[python] 
> won't work unless we change those to unversioned BuildDepends. The other 
> possibility is to make an empty dummy setuptools-py%type_pkg[python] package 
> that simply Depends on distribute (and add 2.5, 2.6 and 2.7 types). That would 
> be the least work.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Daniel
> 
> 
> 

Thanks for the update, but it still doesn't install:

The following package will be installed or updated:
 distribute-py27
Reading buildlock packages...
        All buildlocks accounted for.
/sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait -i /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-x86_64/languages/distribute-py27_0.6.14-2_darwin-x86_64.deb
dpkg: considering removing setuptools-py27 in favour of distribute-py27 ...
dpkg: yes, will remove setuptools-py27 in favour of distribute-py27.
(Reading database ... 137774 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking distribute-py27 (from .../distribute-py27_0.6.14-2_darwin-x86_64.deb) ...
/sw/bin/dpkg: error processing /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-x86_64/languages/distribute-py27_0.6.14-2_darwin-x86_64.deb (--install):
 cannot remove file `/sw/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg-info/zip-safe': Not a directory
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-x86_64/languages/distribute-py27_0.6.14-2_darwin-x86_64.deb
### execution of /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait failed, exit code 1
Failed: can't install package distribute-py27-0.6.14-2

Daniel