monetdb-python packages installed in wrong dir on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (lucid)

[monetdb-team]

Date: 2012-02-03 17:23:23 +0100
From: @bartscheers
To: clients devs <>
Version: 11.7.5 (Dec2011) [obsolete]

Last updated: 2012-02-29 10:34:28 +0100

Comment 16861

Date: 2012-02-03 17:23:23 +0100
From: @bartscheers

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686 on x86_64; rv:8.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0.1
Build Identifier: MonetDB-Aug2011-SP3

Ubuntu keeps python packages in /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages, not in site-packages. The latter is typically for user-build/installed packages (i.e., built from source code), and those should end up in /usr/local/lib/pythonx.x or a cumstom directory anyway.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Follow install instructions:
2. We only want to install on the client nodes:
3. sudo apt-get install monetdb-client python-monetdb

Actual Results:

It is installed in /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages

Expected Results:

installed in /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages

Comment 16866

Date: 2012-02-07 16:02:53 +0100
From: @sjoerdmullender

Changeset a9ee53420f14 made by Sjoerd Mullender sjoerd@acm.org in the MonetDB repo, refers to this bug.

For complete details, see http//devmonetdborg/hg/MonetDB?cmd=changeset;node=a9ee53420f14

Changeset description:

On Debian and Ubuntu, install Python modules in dist-packages.
This fixed bug #2997.

Comment 16867

Date: 2012-02-07 16:19:31 +0100
From: @sjoerdmullender

This is hopefully fixed now.
No test since this cannot be tested in our test setup.