generated sdist crashes with easy_install

[paranoidi]

How to replicate:

1. create virtualenv
2. bin/easy_install http://download.flexget.com/unstable/FlexGet-1.0r1424.tar.gz

It will fail because easy_install will essentially run setup.py bdist_egg after extracting tar.gz and this seems to be same as bdist_egg task in pavement to my surprise.

In that task it will try to do something that does not work correctly in tar.gz context.

Workaround I applied few months ago:

http://flexget.com/changeset?reponame=&old=1533%40trunk%2Fpavement.py&new=1531%40trunk%2Fpavement.py

I think the reason was minilib task, which was not even needed at that time.

Anyway, would be nice to get a proper fix for this. I can test if needed ...

[Almad]

Continuing debugging from http://code.google.com/p/paver/issues/detail?id=49

I am able to reproduce the issue old flexget build that you described. However, when trying to use SVN, everything works fine:

• create virtualenv
• svn co flexget
• pip install Paver
• edit pavement.py in flexget and delete bdist_egg task
• paver sdist
• pip uninstall Paver
• easy_install easy_install flexget-dev/dist/FlexGet-1.0r1828.tar.gz
• happy panda

Can You please verify it works for You this way? If it would be case of old paver...;)

[paranoidi]

This seems to work!

I'm thinking it might have happened because I had

@needs(["minilib", "generate_setup", "setuptools.command.bdist_egg"])

in my bdist_egg task as instructed somewhere earlier.

But it definitely works now without declaring bdist_egg at all.

[Almad]

Cool :)