http://bugs.async.com.br/show_bug.cgi?id=4079
Summary: install script does not properly handle the '--home'
installation option
Product: Kiwi
Version: SVN trunk
Platform: PC
OS/Version: Linux
Status: NEW
Severity: major
Priority: (unset)
Component: Framework
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
QAContact: [email protected]
Estimated Hours: 0.0
Try installing kiwi using the command:
python setup.py install --home=/home/your_username_here
After doing that, importing the kiwi module will fail with an error such as:
EnvironmentError: path /home/somers/lib/python/None/share/kiwi/pixmaps must be
a directory
The cause for this is that __installed__.py is incorrectly generated. It
defines prefix as:
prefix = r"None"
And the cause for that is that kiwi/dist.py does not consider the possibility
that a user might use the '--home' option. It correctly handles uses of the
'--prefix' option, though. It contains the following code, repeated in a few
places:
install = distribution.get_command_obj('install')
name = distribution.get_name()
prefix = install.prefix
An appropriate solution, I think, would be to check install.home in the event
that install.prefix is None. I haven't yet tried this, though, because the
code appears in many places and I'm worried that I wouldn't catch all
instances.
A workaround is to install with the command 'python setup.py
--prefix=/home/your_username_here/'. A related problem is that the install
script does not handle '~' in the prefix correctly. So 'python setup.py
--prefix=~/' does not work.
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