On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Tres Seaver <[email protected]> wrote:
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> 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'.
Right, I should have mentioned that explicitly.
[docutils/trunk/docutils]$ python setup.py install_data --help
...
Options for 'smart_install_data' command:
--install-dir (-d) base directory for installing data files (default:
installation base dir)
--root install everything relative to this alternate root
directory
--force (-f) force installation (overwrite existing files)
...
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> Tres.
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