Re: [Distutils] easy_install runnable in a sandbox environment?

2012-05-09 Thread PJ Eby
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 6:42 PM, Rick van der Zwet wrote: > Quite some time ago, their has been comments in the changelog (06.c4) > stating that running easy_install without /dev/urandom should be > possible: > Fixed not allowing os.open() of paths outside the sandbox, even if > they are opened r

[Distutils] Distutils2 Sprint in Montreal

2012-05-09 Thread Éric Araujo
Hi all, The Montreal-Python user group is organizing a second sprint to work on distutils2 on May 12th. If you live in Montreal, take a laptop and come join us! No previous knowledge of Distutils2 is required, just general Python skills. All details are found here: http://montrealpy

Re: [Distutils] command hooks

2012-05-09 Thread Éric Araujo
Hi Rob, I looked all around the bug tracker to try to add a comment and a thank you for providing it, but I could not even find a login button or if I were even logged in... You can log in with the small form in the sidebar on the left. When you are logged in, a bug page appears as an HTML for

[Distutils] easy_install runnable in a sandbox environment?

2012-05-09 Thread Rick van der Zwet
I am having issues in running easy_install in a sandbox environment (chroot with python2.7 under FreeBSD 9.0-RELASE, without /dev mount). easy_install is sourcing tempfile, which requires /dev/urandom to be present, as seen in the backtrace: brahm# sh -x setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg + basen