Martin Skøtt wrote: > On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 08:09:47AM -0800, Phillip J. Eby wrote: > One strange thing is that my ~/.pydistutils.cfg has been looking like > this all the time: > > [install] > install_lib = /usr/local/lib/python$py_version_short/site-packages > > [easy_install] > site_dirs=/usr/local/lib/python$py_version_short/site-packages > > I guess --site-dirs is the same as site_dirs being set in the file?
Yes. You can set the default for any easy_install option that way. For boolean options, set them to 1. Note, however, that the [easy_install] section does *not* support $ variables, so the above configuration probably doesn't work correctly. The $ variables only work in the [install] section, and no, you can't put site_dirs there. Just list the paths explicitly in site_dirs. > > to the distutils.cfg file as described in the instructions, in addition > > to the site_dirs setting. > > I just noticed that neither python2.3 or python2.4 in Debian include > a distutils.cfg file. It sounds like a bug to me, so I will try to > contact the package maintainer and get him to add it (since the > /usr/local/lib/python*/site-packages dir is created by the package). That would be good, as long as they also include the altinstall.pth so that the .pth files in the /usr/local tree get handled. By having a distutils/distutils.cfg with the defaults set as well, they will make it easy for people to actually use /usr/local, and people won't have as many problems using EasyInstall. They *do*, however, need to have the /usr/local/ site-packages directory in sys.path come *before* the /usr one, though, or locally installed packages won't be able to override the system-installed ones. > I will add some info about this to > http://trac.turbogears.org/turbogears/wiki/SystemInstall so other > Debian user won't run into the same trouble. Good idea, and thanks.
