On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 18:57:12 -0500, Robert Kern wrote: > Keith Perkins wrote: > >> On a similar note , I have another question about distutils and data files. >> I have a little program that uses a txt file to store data, and it works >> fine running it in it's own folder, if I install through distutils, using >> sudo to get it to write to the site-packages folder (which root owns), it >> installs the data file so that it is owned by root, and not by me, so >> that the data file can't be written to (although the script can read it). >> Do I need to run a post install script, or add something to setup.py file >> to chown the file or am I doing something wrong? There doesn't seem to be >> anything on this in the docs. > > There's nothing in distutils specifically that will let you do this. The root > user will have to chown/chgrp/chmod/chwhatever the package that you installed > manually. > > You shouldn't use package data for things that are going to be modified. > Instead, use a directory like ~/.myscript/ or something else.
I did install it in ~/.script/data.txt, and distutils set the user/group as root. Is it impossible to install this with distutils? Since I'm running setup as root, should I just add a class or method to chown the datafolder/file to the installer. Should I use autotools instead? I haven't looked into eggs yet would that be a better choice? The data file is something that is necessary for the program (it reads it and prints out a random line--the whole idea of the script)if that's all I wanted it to do I wouldn't have any problems--I could even include it as a list in the script file, but I would like the user to be able to add other data. Thanks, Keith -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
