On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 11:35:11PM +0100, Michael Foord wrote: > On 9 August 2011 22:42, Ned Deily <n...@acm.org> wrote: > Hmm... for 3.2 and 2.7 I was using Activestate installers not Python.org > ones - so perhaps it's their bug (in which case sorry for the noise).
Nope - this is from a new Mac mini that shipped with Lion and has not had any non-system Pythons installed: bookworm% ls -ld /Library/Python/*/site-packages drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 136 Jun 25 08:05 /Library/Python/2.3/site-packages drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jul 2 17:08 /Library/Python/2.5/site-packages drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jul 2 17:08 /Library/Python/2.6/site-packages drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jul 2 17:08 /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages I'd say if any of the python.org or ActiveState Python installers mess with these directories' ownership or permissions, they're doing something wrong. While the contents of these directories is up to the user, their permissions are part of the OS install. > Many folders in the System domain that were previously owned by > the admingroup are now owned by the wheel group. This isn't quite right (the "System domain" means /System); it's the part a bit later that says "All subdirectories within /Library now have mode 755 (writable only by root) permissions instead of mode 775 (writable by the admin group) except... [a bunch of directories that do not include Python]". Anyway, the workaround is simple enough - and yeah, still pretty necessary to install pip/virtualenv themselves. -- Nicholas Riley <njri...@illinois.edu> _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/Pythonmac-SIG
