On Mon, 2017-01-02 at 01:16:32 +0100, Andrzej Telszewski wrote: > Maybe slackrepo does not allow to download something needed by the Python > install script.
I don't know slackrepo well enough, but this seems likely. > But it shouldn't be downloaded in the first place. > > I don't know enough about Python installation scripts to say the final word. borgbackup's setup.py contains the following line: setup_requires=['setuptools_scm>=1.7'], Thus setuptools_scm should really be a requirement for borgbackup. setuptools documentation has this description of setup_requires field: A string or list of strings specifying what other distributions need to be present in order for the setup script to run. setuptools will attempt to obtain these (even going so far as to download them using EasyInstall) before processing the rest of the setup script or commands. <...> This explains why the build succeeded for Willy and, if slackrepo does indeed disable network access, why it didn't for you. -- Audrius Kažukauskas http://neutrino.lt/
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