Phillip & Others:
Thanks so much for taking the time to answer my questions, I am a
newbie to setuptools so I apologize if I was just being thick.
Phillip, your suggested solution of using --root solved my problem. I
was previously using --prefix instead, but using --root creates the
packages more in the way that work well with Solaris packaging.
Brian
When you do that, use "setup.py install --root=/var/tmp/pkgbuild-foo" to
install the package, and you'll be good to go. That will automatically
tell setuptools to install the package in a way that supports being
installed like this; any .pth files generated will be named uniquely for
that package, rather than using easy-install.pth. In fact, most
packages won't generate a .pth file at all when installed this way.
Note, too, that the same --root option is also safe for installing plain
distutils packages; it's just that setuptools also uses it to enable a
distutils-compatible (and packaging tool compatible) installation mode.
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