On Wednesday 05 July 2006 19:16, you wrote: > >I'm trying to install picard (http://musicbrainz.org/wd/PicardDownload) > > with python -c "import setuptools;execfile('setup.py')" install > >--single-version-externally-managed --root=/path/to/root > >but it breaks with: > >usage: -c [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...] > > or: -c --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...] > > or: -c --help-commands > > or: -c cmd --help > > > >error: option --single-version-externally-managed not recognized > > > >Is that ok and i should use ./setup.py without "import > >setuptools;execfile('setup.py')" hack, or if this a bug in setuptools that > >should be fixed? > > I'm having trouble reproducing the problem, as this tarball: > > https://helixcommunity.org/download.php/1791/picard-0.6.0.tar.gz > > doesn't appear to contain a setup.py. Could you give me some more > information about what package you are installing from and where its > setup.py is coming from?
Sorry, i dind't say, i use 0.7.0-beta3 version https://helixcommunity.org/download.php/2009/picard-0.7.0-beta3.tar.gz > > (By the way, --root implies --single-version-externally-managed, so you > don't need to use the latter if you are using the former. However, you > should only be using --root if you are planning to copy the contents of > /path/to/root *to* the actual root, /. Usually this option is used in > conjunction with a packaging tool such as RPM. If you aren't planning to > copy /path/to/root to /, you shouldn't be using --root either.) Yeah, i want to make a package. thanks for tip, i wan't use --single-... for manual tests :) (but i'll use it for packae building as it helps to find errors like this) -- Pavel _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
