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Re: Packaging ufw
From: |
Danny Milosavljevic |
Subject: |
Re: Packaging ufw |
Date: |
Sat, 10 Nov 2018 22:25:59 +0100 |
Hi,
On Sat, 10 Nov 2018 21:42:38 +0100
swedebugia <address@hidden> wrote:
> I need help.
>
> It fails with
>
> starting phase `install'
> running "python setup.py" with command "install" and parameters
> ("--prefix=/gnu/store/v8kzgqs1jdfg7wzqr9c02719ada6x8bm-ufw-0.35"
> "--single-version-externally-managed" "--root=/" "--root=/")
> Found
> '/gnu/store/8assqq8vmmvn09cysg5nm3kf2075hvxd-iptables-1.6.2/sbin/iptables'
> version '1.6.2\n''
> usage: -c [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...]
> or: -c --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...]
> or: -c --help-commands
> or: -c cmd --help
>
> error: option --single-version-externally-managed not recognized
>
> This option comes from the python-build-system.
Yes, and it elaborates (in guix/guix/build/python-build-system.scm):
>;; Pip behaves a bit different then easy_install: it always executes
>;; "setup.py" with the option "--single-version-externally-managed" set. This
>;; makes setuptools' "install" command run the original "install" command
>;; instead of the "easy_install" command, so no .pth file (and no site.py)
>;; will be created. The "site-packages" directory only contains the package
>;; and the related .egg-info directory.
>;;
>;; This is exactly what we need for Guix and this is what we mimic in the
>;; install phase below.
>(define* (install #:key outputs (configure-flags '()) use-setuptools?
> #:allow-other-keys)
> "Install a given Python package."
> (let* ((out (assoc-ref outputs "out"))
> (params (append (list (string-append "--prefix=" out))
> (if use-setuptools?
^---- Aha!
> ;; distutils does not accept these flags
>
> (list "--single-version-externally-managed"
> "--root=/")
> '())
> configure-flags)))
> (call-setuppy "install" params use-setuptools?)
> #t))
Try specifying
(arguments
`(#:use-setuptools? #f))
in the package.
But if ufw doesn't use "--single-version-externally-managed", that implies
that ufw is not available on PyPI. Weird.
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