[tahoe-lafs-trac-stream] [tahoe-lafs] #668: easy_install allmydata-tahoe is broken

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#668: easy_install allmydata-tahoe is broken
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     Reporter:  francois   |       Owner:  zooko                                       
         Type:  defect     |      Status:  assigned                                    
     Priority:  major      |   Milestone:  soon                                        
    Component:  packaging  |     Version:  1.3.0                                       
   Resolution:             |    Keywords:  setuptools install ubuntu debian test-needed
Launchpad Bug:             |  
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Comment (by davidsarah):

 Replying to [comment:17 zooko]:
 > Hooray! It works. I had to update {{{pycryptopp}}} and {{{zfec}}} to
 avoid build-dependencies, and someone (presumably dlitz) had to fix
 http://pycrypto.org to work again, but now {{{easy_install allmydata-
 tahoe}}} works! :-)

 Be careful: if you use {{{easy_install allmydata-tahoe}}} to install into
 a directory where other Python packages that are Tahoe dependencies are
 installed, and then later try to run a newer version from a build using
 the newer version's {{{bin/tahoe}}}, then you may get an error because the
 older version is found by mistake. This shouldn't happen, but it can
 because of #1246.

 ({{{setup.py install}}} has the same problem.)

 I therefore think that we should be recommending against installing Tahoe
 to any site directories (which is where {{{easy_install}}} will put it by
 default). It should be safe to install it to a fresh directory using
 {{{easy_install allmydata-tahoe --prefix=<some fresh directory>}}}.

 Also note that {{{easy_install}}} is some random version of setuptools or
 distribute, so who knows what bugs it has?

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Ticket URL: <http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/668#comment:19>
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