On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 5:26 PM, Gael Varoquaux
<gael.varoqu...@normalesup.org> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 12:21:45AM +0100, Georg Brandl wrote:
>
>> Andy R. Terrel schrieb:
>> > When I tried to download it, using python2.6, I got:
>
>> > ater...@lilac:~$ sudo easy_install Sphinx
>> > Processing Sphinx
>> > Running Sphinx-0.5.1/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /usr/local/src/
>> > sympy/doc/Sphinx/Sphinx-0.5.1/egg-dist-tmp-Ubq0iR
>> > error: Setup script exited with error: SandboxViolation: open
>> > ('Sphinx.egg-info/requires.txt', 'wb') {}
>
>> > 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.
>
>> Hmm, I'm not familiar with this error. easy_install Sphinx works fine
>> for me. Anybody else?
>
> We see this bug a lot with ETS (enthought tools suite). We always thought
> it was incompatibility between setuptools and numpy.distutils. It seems
> this is not the case. It might be a bug in setuptools. In which case it
> is well hidden, because it is hard to reproduce.
>
Hard to reproduce, indeed. Especially when rerunning the same command
usually works. We also thought it possibly had something to do with
multiple packages in a dependency chain, but if it happens with only
one package then that's not the case.
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