-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 David Cournapeau wrote: > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Kent Tenney <[email protected]> wrote: >> In a docutils svn checkout. >> >> [docutils/trunk/docutils]$ python setup.py install --root /tmp >> OK >> >> [docutils/trunk/docutils]$ python setup.py install_data --root /tmp >> >> distutils.errors.DistutilsFileError: >> could not delete >> '/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/docutils/parsers/rst/include/README.txt': >> Permission denied > > Well, do you have writing permision in that directory ? Generally, you > need admin priviledges to write anything in /usr/local, and tmp is > writable by anyone,
The issue is that distutils is ignoring the '--root' passed to 'install_data'. Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 [email protected] Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEUEARECAAYFAkv/7NgACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ7MxACVEcSHRW5y5doD2765QSrGhnSK ogCfU6Impyk5lGSGKamRTbY5Td7Tb3c= =7YDb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
