[csw-maintainers] complex trac issue

[Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Peter FELECAN <pfelecan at opencsw.org> wrote:
> "Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski" <maciej at opencsw.org> writes:
>
>> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Peter FELECAN <pfelecan at opencsw.org> wrote:
>>> As you asked me, I investigated the origin of the files in
>>> /opt/csw/lib/python/site-packages and all the files are from the CSWtrac
>>> package. However, I do not understand what do you mean by "right version
>>> of Trac is present in Trac files"...  I didn't found a reference to Trac
>>> version in those files.
>>
>> The theory is that pysetuptools look into the egg files for
>> information about installed packages.  It can be thought of as the
>> Python equivalent of SONAMEs (kind of).  pysetuptools might look into
>> the egg files to figure out the versions of installed packages.  If
>> the egg files are missing, pysetuptools think that the package is not
>> installed, and they throw an errors.
>>
>> Trying the package from experimental would test this theory.  Can you do that?
>
> Yes. It moves the issue a step farther:
>
> trac-admin /tracs/test resync
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/opt/csw/bin/trac-admin", line 5, in <module>
>    from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
>  File "/opt/csw/lib/python/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2603, in <module>
>    working_set.require(__requires__)
>  File "/opt/csw/lib/python/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 666, in require
>    needed = self.resolve(parse_requirements(requirements))
>  File "/opt/csw/lib/python/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 565, in resolve
>    raise DistributionNotFound(req)  # XXX put more info here
> pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: setuptools>=0.6b1
>
> Maybe more eggs missing

Good, change in the error message equals progress!  pysetuptools are
waiting for you in experimental.