On 06-04-13 02:55, Chris Withers wrote:
Having bootstrap.py really make sure things are started again from
scratch would likely solve all these problems. (The .installed.cfg stuff
I remember hitting before, when only using clean pythons)

Removing .installed.cfg: not sure. Some recipes fail when installing themselves when there's still something left over from the last run. And 'install' versus 'update' is used when the .installed.cfg is gone.

OTOH, that's somethint that needs fixing in the recipes.

Removing the develop eggs: that actually sounds like a very good idea. It would have solved quite some issues with system packages here at the office.

(And yes, we use system packages too. Big geographical stack with numpy, mapnik, matplotlib, geos, scipy, netcdf... Impractical to compile from source. Though I'm sometimes tempted to make a buildout that compiles all that stuff for me :-) )


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