Public bug reported: Binary package hint: python-setuptools
Upstream bug report: http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/142/easy_install-will- install-a-package-that-is-already This causes compatibility problems between distribute and setuptools, and shows up when using virtualenv, which uses distribute by default (as does our python-setuptools package). From distutils-sig, here's a reproducible test case for Lucid: Sure. Create a dummy setup.py: from setuptools import setup setup(name="foo", install_requires=["somepkg"]) with "somepkg" any package already installed on ubuntu, and then: virtualenv tmp source tmp/bin/activate python setup.py install You will see that somepkg is downloaded and installed even though it is already there. It happened for me for any value of somepkg, including twisted, django, simplejson. As for using setuptools instead of distribute in virtualenv, I cannot see the option on my current machine (with lucid virtualenv), which is weird because I clearly remember having seen it at work. I will check there to see what's different, ** Affects: python-setuptools (Ubuntu) Importance: High Assignee: Barry Warsaw (barry) Status: New ** Changed in: python-setuptools (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => High ** Changed in: python-setuptools (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Barry Warsaw (barry) ** Changed in: python-setuptools (Ubuntu) Milestone: None => ubuntu-10.04.1 -- easy_install will install a package that is already there https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/601040 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
