Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] bdist_mpkg questions

2005-06-05 Thread Bob Ippolito
On Jun 5, 2005, at 2:40 PM, Ronald Oussoren wrote: > > On 3-jun-2005, at 23:33, Bob Ippolito wrote: > >>> >>> artoo% bdist_mpkg -h >>> Traceback (most recent call last): >>> File "/usr/local/bin/bdist_mpkg", line 2, in ? >>> from bdist_mpkg.scripts.script_bdist_mpkg import main >>> ImportEr

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] bdist_mpkg questions

2005-06-05 Thread Ronald Oussoren
On 3-jun-2005, at 23:33, Bob Ippolito wrote: >> >> artoo% bdist_mpkg -h >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "/usr/local/bin/bdist_mpkg", line 2, in ? >> from bdist_mpkg.scripts.script_bdist_mpkg import main >> ImportError: No module named bdist_mpkg.scripts.script_bdist_mpkg >> > >

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] bdist_mpkg questions

2005-06-05 Thread Ronald Oussoren
On 3-jun-2005, at 23:24, Nick Matsakis wrote: > > 3. What's the deal with PackageManager? What is a "repository", > exactly, > and what format are the packages in a repository? If you don't know you don't wanna know :-). The idea of PackageManager was that a trusted platform maintainer wou

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] bdist_mpkg questions

2005-06-04 Thread Bob Ippolito
On Jun 4, 2005, at 7:05 AM, Nick Matsakis wrote: > > On Sat, 4 Jun 2005, Bob Ippolito wrote: > > >> Where did that package come from anyway? I certainly didn't build >> it. >> > > It came with Python23Compat, which you claim to have built: > http://bob.pythonmac.org/archives/2005/02/02/python2

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] bdist_mpkg questions

2005-06-04 Thread Nick Matsakis
On Sat, 4 Jun 2005, Bob Ippolito wrote: > The /usr/bin/installer and the Installer.app can have different > behavior, and if either does happen to change permissions, then it's a > bug in Mac OS X 10.3 (one that looks rather inconsequential). It > absolutely does not have that behavior in 10.4,

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] bdist_mpkg questions

2005-06-04 Thread Bob Ippolito
On Jun 3, 2005, at 11:52 PM, Nick Matsakis wrote: > > On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Bob Ippolito wrote: > > >>> 2. When I install a bdist-made package, the files have the owner of >>> the user that built the package not the user installing the package, >>> even though no root authorization is required. >>>

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] bdist_mpkg questions

2005-06-03 Thread Nick Matsakis
On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Bob Ippolito wrote: > > 2. When I install a bdist-made package, the files have the owner of > > the user that built the package not the user installing the package, > > even though no root authorization is required. > bdist_mpkg always finds the deepest installation location

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] bdist_mpkg questions

2005-06-03 Thread Bob Ippolito
On Jun 3, 2005, at 11:24 PM, Nick Matsakis wrote: > > I'm playing around with bdist_mpkg and have some questions. If > these get > answered, I promise to put them on the wiki: > > 1. Why does it build a meta-package with a single package inside? > Why not > just a package? Each distutils t