At work we have a package (MYSQL-python) which was mistakenly installed with
easy_install as a zip archive. I'd like to reinstall as a non-zipped
directory-based install.
To guarantee that I get compile and link flags right I've been trying to
experiment in my own site-packages directory but continue to be thwarted by
the presence of the centrally installed zip archive version. For instance,
if I execute this:
export PYTHONPATH=$HOME/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages
easy_install --prefix=$HOME/local -Z -U MYSQL-python
it executes very quickly, with no obvious attempts to compile or link
anything. When I look at the easy-install.pth file in my site-packages
directory I find that all it did was drop in a reference to the centrally
installed zip archive version of the package! That's not what I wanted at
all.
How can I tell easy_install to ignore that centrally installed version?
Failing that, is it okay to simply unzip the package we have provided in the
end it has the same name?
Thanks,
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Skip Montanaro - [email protected] - http://www.smontanaro.net/
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