2009/6/4 Tarek Ziadé <[email protected]>: > On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Brian Sutherland > <[email protected]> wrote: >>> And easy_install would have its own marker maybe, if the way it >>> installs stuff slighlty differs >> >> ok, seems reasonable:) > > I'll work on that. I guess it's time to code the uninstall prototype, > >> >> Perhaps the --installer option take a string (like "dpkg") and convert >> that to an md5 sum? >> > > Mmm, or maybe drop the md5 completely, and go for a human readable name. > > (distutils, dpkg, etc..) > > The api would raise an error if the name is not in [A-Za-z0-9_\-]
I just remembered that setuptools implicitly sets --single-version-externally-managed when the --root option is set. Unfortunately my packaging-fu is not good enough to tell if it's an option in this case as well, i.e. to set --installer to "external". http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools#install-run-easy-install-or-old-style-installation _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
