Using virtualenv from a virtualenv doesn't work anymore

[altaurog]

I've been using virtualenv as described here to bootstrap an initial virtualenv, install virtualenv into it, and use that to create additional virtualenvs. I've done this with no problems for quite a while, but it broke in v1.11.

The sequence is as follows:

$ wget -q https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/v/virtualenv/virtualenv-1.10.tar.gz
$ tar xf virtualenv-1.10.tar.gz
$ python virtualenv-1.10/virtualenv.py -q venv/default
$ . venv/default/bin/activate
(default) $ cd virtualenv-1.10
(default) $ python setup.py -q install
(default) $ cd
(default) $ virtualenv venv/new

That worked fine with v1.10, and it's really a fantastic way to go about it. Until now. With v1.11 the last command fails. Here's the traceback:

$ virtualenv venv/test
Using real prefix '/usr'
New python executable in venv/test/bin/python
Installing setuptools, pip...
  Complete output from command /home/ubuntu/venv/test/bin/python -c "import sys, pip; pip...ll\"] + sys.argv[1:])" setuptools pip:
  Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/home/ubuntu/venv/default/lib/python2.6/site-packages/virtualenv-1.11-py2.6.egg/virtualenv_support/pip-1.5-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/__init__.py", line 9, in <module>
  File "/home/ubuntu/venv/default/lib/python2.6/site-packages/virtualenv-1.11-py2.6.egg/virtualenv_support/pip-1.5-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pip/log.py", line 8, in <module>
  File "/home/ubuntu/venv/default/lib/python2.6/site-packages/virtualenv-1.11-py2.6.egg/virtualenv_support/setuptools-2.0.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pkg_resources.py", line 2696, in <module>
  File "/home/ubuntu/venv/default/lib/python2.6/site-packages/virtualenv-1.11-py2.6.egg/virtualenv_support/setuptools-2.0.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pkg_resources.py", line 429, in __init__
  File "/home/ubuntu/venv/default/lib/python2.6/site-packages/virtualenv-1.11-py2.6.egg/virtualenv_support/setuptools-2.0.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pkg_resources.py", line 443, in add_entry
  File "/home/ubuntu/venv/default/lib/python2.6/site-packages/virtualenv-1.11-py2.6.egg/virtualenv_support/setuptools-2.0.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pkg_resources.py", line 1722, in find_in_zip
  File "/home/ubuntu/venv/default/lib/python2.6/site-packages/virtualenv-1.11-py2.6.egg/virtualenv_support/setuptools-2.0.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pkg_resources.py", line 1298, in has_metadata
  File "/home/ubuntu/venv/default/lib/python2.6/site-packages/virtualenv-1.11-py2.6.egg/virtualenv_support/setuptools-2.0.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pkg_resources.py", line 1614, in _has
  File "/home/ubuntu/venv/default/lib/python2.6/site-packages/virtualenv-1.11-py2.6.egg/virtualenv_support/setuptools-2.0.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl/pkg_resources.py", line 1488, in _zipinfo_name
AssertionError: /home/ubuntu/venv/default/lib/python2.6/site-packages/virtualenv-1.11-py2.6.egg/EGG-INFO/PKG-INFO is not a subpath of /home/ubuntu/venv/default/lib/python2.6/site-packages/virtualenv-1.11-py2.6.egg/virtualenv_support/setuptools-2.0.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl/
----------------------------------------
...Installing setuptools, pip...done.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/ubuntu/venv/default/bin/virtualenv", line 9, in <module>
    load_entry_point('virtualenv==1.11', 'console_scripts', 'virtualenv')()
  File "/home/ubuntu/venv/default/lib/python2.6/site-packages/virtualenv-1.11-py2.6.egg/virtualenv.py", line 820, in main
    symlink=options.symlink)
  File "/home/ubuntu/venv/default/lib/python2.6/site-packages/virtualenv-1.11-py2.6.egg/virtualenv.py", line 988, in create_environment
    install_wheel(to_install, py_executable, search_dirs)
  File "/home/ubuntu/venv/default/lib/python2.6/site-packages/virtualenv-1.11-py2.6.egg/virtualenv.py", line 956, in install_wheel
    'PIP_NO_INDEX': '1'
  File "/home/ubuntu/venv/default/lib/python2.6/site-packages/virtualenv-1.11-py2.6.egg/virtualenv.py", line 898, in call_subprocess
    % (cmd_desc, proc.returncode))
OSError: Command /home/ubuntu/venv/test/bin/python -c "import sys, pip; pip...ll\"] + sys.argv[1:])" setuptools pip failed with error code 1

[qwcode]

the error you're getting is due to #524, which has a fix in v1.11.1, which is soon to be released.

[ionelmc]

This still happens on 1.11.1 - I'm opening a different issue for this: #552