On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 11:09:29AM -0800, Phillip J. Eby wrote: > Note, however, that the [easy_install] section does *not* support $ > variables, so the above configuration probably doesn't work correctly. > The $ variables only work in the [install] section, and no, you can't > put site_dirs there. Just list the paths explicitly in site_dirs.
Ahh... I had just pasted in the settings from http://trac.turbogears.org/turbogears/wiki/SystemInstall. I have updated the guide and added a note about $ variables not being useable under [easy_install]. > That would be good, as long as they also include the altinstall.pth so > that the .pth files in the /usr/local tree get handled. By having a > distutils/distutils.cfg with the defaults set as well, they will make > it easy for people to actually use /usr/local, and people won't have as > many problems using EasyInstall. They *do*, however, need to have the > /usr/local/ site-packages directory in sys.path come *before* the /usr > one, though, or locally installed packages won't be able to override > the system-installed ones. Great, I hope it's okay with you that I quote the above in my message to the maintainer. -- Med venlig hilsen Martin Skøtt
