[csw-maintainers] complex trac issue

[Peter FELECAN]

"Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski" <maciej at opencsw.org> writes:

> 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.

It works:

trac-admin /tracs/test resync
Resyncing repository history... 
0 revisions cached.
Done.

The learned lesson is that the eggs must be laid in the nest.
-- 
Peter