I think it was clearly explained here: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2012-February/162518.html
I did not do the research into this explanation - it looks like others have though. I'm just the poor victim who's systems were trashed by this nasty bug, which causes fedora update to abort leaving you with a mess. On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 9:37 AM, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: > > On Mar 25, 2014, at 9:29 AM, Neal Becker <ndbeck...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Well just to be clear then, without resolving this issue (which, IMO, is > a bug in cpio that should be fixed) it > > is absolutely unsafe to ever use pip for non-local installs on fedora. > > > > It might be because I'm still half asleep and trying to wake up, but I'm > confused as to what is happening here, pip should never install a egg info > file, it always imports setuptools so it always gets an egg-info directory. > Are you seeing something different? > > ----------------- > Donald Stufft > PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 > DCFA > > > _______________________________________________ > python-devel mailing list > python-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/python-devel >
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