easy_install allmydata-tahoe is broken #668
Labels
No labels
c/code
c/code-dirnodes
c/code-encoding
c/code-frontend
c/code-frontend-cli
c/code-frontend-ftp-sftp
c/code-frontend-magic-folder
c/code-frontend-web
c/code-mutable
c/code-network
c/code-nodeadmin
c/code-peerselection
c/code-storage
c/contrib
c/dev-infrastructure
c/docs
c/operational
c/packaging
c/unknown
c/website
kw:2pc
kw:410
kw:9p
kw:ActivePerl
kw:AttributeError
kw:DataUnavailable
kw:DeadReferenceError
kw:DoS
kw:FileZilla
kw:GetLastError
kw:IFinishableConsumer
kw:K
kw:LeastAuthority
kw:Makefile
kw:RIStorageServer
kw:StringIO
kw:UncoordinatedWriteError
kw:about
kw:access
kw:access-control
kw:accessibility
kw:accounting
kw:accounting-crawler
kw:add-only
kw:aes
kw:aesthetics
kw:alias
kw:aliases
kw:aliens
kw:allmydata
kw:amazon
kw:ambient
kw:annotations
kw:anonymity
kw:anonymous
kw:anti-censorship
kw:api_auth_token
kw:appearance
kw:appname
kw:apport
kw:archive
kw:archlinux
kw:argparse
kw:arm
kw:assertion
kw:attachment
kw:auth
kw:authentication
kw:automation
kw:avahi
kw:availability
kw:aws
kw:azure
kw:backend
kw:backoff
kw:backup
kw:backupdb
kw:backward-compatibility
kw:bandwidth
kw:basedir
kw:bayes
kw:bbfreeze
kw:beta
kw:binaries
kw:binutils
kw:bitcoin
kw:bitrot
kw:blacklist
kw:blocker
kw:blocks-cloud-deployment
kw:blocks-cloud-merge
kw:blocks-magic-folder-merge
kw:blocks-merge
kw:blocks-raic
kw:blocks-release
kw:blog
kw:bom
kw:bonjour
kw:branch
kw:branding
kw:breadcrumbs
kw:brians-opinion-needed
kw:browser
kw:bsd
kw:build
kw:build-helpers
kw:buildbot
kw:builders
kw:buildslave
kw:buildslaves
kw:cache
kw:cap
kw:capleak
kw:captcha
kw:cast
kw:centos
kw:cffi
kw:chacha
kw:charset
kw:check
kw:checker
kw:chroot
kw:ci
kw:clean
kw:cleanup
kw:cli
kw:cloud
kw:cloud-backend
kw:cmdline
kw:code
kw:code-checks
kw:coding-standards
kw:coding-tools
kw:coding_tools
kw:collection
kw:compatibility
kw:completion
kw:compression
kw:confidentiality
kw:config
kw:configuration
kw:configuration.txt
kw:conflict
kw:connection
kw:connectivity
kw:consistency
kw:content
kw:control
kw:control.furl
kw:convergence
kw:coordination
kw:copyright
kw:corruption
kw:cors
kw:cost
kw:coverage
kw:coveralls
kw:coveralls.io
kw:cpu-watcher
kw:cpyext
kw:crash
kw:crawler
kw:crawlers
kw:create-container
kw:cruft
kw:crypto
kw:cryptography
kw:cryptography-lib
kw:cryptopp
kw:csp
kw:curl
kw:cutoff-date
kw:cycle
kw:cygwin
kw:d3
kw:daemon
kw:darcs
kw:darcsver
kw:database
kw:dataloss
kw:db
kw:dead-code
kw:deb
kw:debian
kw:debug
kw:deep-check
kw:defaults
kw:deferred
kw:delete
kw:deletion
kw:denial-of-service
kw:dependency
kw:deployment
kw:deprecation
kw:desert-island
kw:desert-island-build
kw:design
kw:design-review-needed
kw:detection
kw:dev-infrastructure
kw:devpay
kw:directory
kw:directory-page
kw:dirnode
kw:dirnodes
kw:disconnect
kw:discovery
kw:disk
kw:disk-backend
kw:distribute
kw:distutils
kw:dns
kw:do_http
kw:doc-needed
kw:docker
kw:docs
kw:docs-needed
kw:dokan
kw:dos
kw:download
kw:downloader
kw:dragonfly
kw:drop-upload
kw:duplicity
kw:dusty
kw:earth-dragon
kw:easy
kw:ec2
kw:ecdsa
kw:ed25519
kw:egg-needed
kw:eggs
kw:eliot
kw:email
kw:empty
kw:encoding
kw:endpoint
kw:enterprise
kw:enum34
kw:environment
kw:erasure
kw:erasure-coding
kw:error
kw:escaping
kw:etag
kw:etch
kw:evangelism
kw:eventual
kw:example
kw:excess-authority
kw:exec
kw:exocet
kw:expiration
kw:extensibility
kw:extension
kw:failure
kw:fedora
kw:ffp
kw:fhs
kw:figleaf
kw:file
kw:file-descriptor
kw:filename
kw:filesystem
kw:fileutil
kw:fips
kw:firewall
kw:first
kw:floatingpoint
kw:flog
kw:foolscap
kw:forward-compatibility
kw:forward-secrecy
kw:forwarding
kw:free
kw:freebsd
kw:frontend
kw:fsevents
kw:ftp
kw:ftpd
kw:full
kw:furl
kw:fuse
kw:garbage
kw:garbage-collection
kw:gateway
kw:gatherer
kw:gc
kw:gcc
kw:gentoo
kw:get
kw:git
kw:git-annex
kw:github
kw:glacier
kw:globalcaps
kw:glossary
kw:google-cloud-storage
kw:google-drive-backend
kw:gossip
kw:governance
kw:grid
kw:grid-manager
kw:gridid
kw:gridsync
kw:grsec
kw:gsoc
kw:gvfs
kw:hackfest
kw:hacktahoe
kw:hang
kw:hardlink
kw:heartbleed
kw:heisenbug
kw:help
kw:helper
kw:hint
kw:hooks
kw:how
kw:how-to
kw:howto
kw:hp
kw:hp-cloud
kw:html
kw:http
kw:https
kw:i18n
kw:i2p
kw:i2p-collab
kw:illustration
kw:image
kw:immutable
kw:impressions
kw:incentives
kw:incident
kw:init
kw:inlineCallbacks
kw:inotify
kw:install
kw:installer
kw:integration
kw:integration-test
kw:integrity
kw:interactive
kw:interface
kw:interfaces
kw:interoperability
kw:interstellar-exploration
kw:introducer
kw:introduction
kw:iphone
kw:ipkg
kw:iputil
kw:ipv6
kw:irc
kw:jail
kw:javascript
kw:joke
kw:jquery
kw:json
kw:jsui
kw:junk
kw:key-value-store
kw:kfreebsd
kw:known-issue
kw:konqueror
kw:kpreid
kw:kvm
kw:l10n
kw:lae
kw:large
kw:latency
kw:leak
kw:leasedb
kw:leases
kw:libgmp
kw:license
kw:licenss
kw:linecount
kw:link
kw:linux
kw:lit
kw:localhost
kw:location
kw:locking
kw:logging
kw:logo
kw:loopback
kw:lucid
kw:mac
kw:macintosh
kw:magic-folder
kw:manhole
kw:manifest
kw:manual-test-needed
kw:map
kw:mapupdate
kw:max_space
kw:mdmf
kw:memcheck
kw:memory
kw:memory-leak
kw:mesh
kw:metadata
kw:meter
kw:migration
kw:mime
kw:mingw
kw:minimal
kw:misc
kw:miscapture
kw:mlp
kw:mock
kw:more-info-needed
kw:mountain-lion
kw:move
kw:multi-users
kw:multiple
kw:multiuser-gateway
kw:munin
kw:music
kw:mutability
kw:mutable
kw:mystery
kw:names
kw:naming
kw:nas
kw:navigation
kw:needs-review
kw:needs-spawn
kw:netbsd
kw:network
kw:nevow
kw:new-user
kw:newcaps
kw:news
kw:news-done
kw:news-needed
kw:newsletter
kw:newurls
kw:nfc
kw:nginx
kw:nixos
kw:no-clobber
kw:node
kw:node-url
kw:notification
kw:notifyOnDisconnect
kw:nsa310
kw:nsa320
kw:nsa325
kw:numpy
kw:objects
kw:old
kw:openbsd
kw:openitp-packaging
kw:openssl
kw:openstack
kw:opensuse
kw:operation-helpers
kw:operational
kw:operations
kw:ophandle
kw:ophandles
kw:ops
kw:optimization
kw:optional
kw:options
kw:organization
kw:os
kw:os.abort
kw:ostrom
kw:osx
kw:osxfuse
kw:otf-magic-folder-objective1
kw:otf-magic-folder-objective2
kw:otf-magic-folder-objective3
kw:otf-magic-folder-objective4
kw:otf-magic-folder-objective5
kw:otf-magic-folder-objective6
kw:p2p
kw:packaging
kw:partial
kw:password
kw:path
kw:paths
kw:pause
kw:peer-selection
kw:performance
kw:permalink
kw:permissions
kw:persistence
kw:phone
kw:pickle
kw:pip
kw:pipermail
kw:pkg_resources
kw:placement
kw:planning
kw:policy
kw:port
kw:portability
kw:portal
kw:posthook
kw:pratchett
kw:preformance
kw:preservation
kw:privacy
kw:process
kw:profile
kw:profiling
kw:progress
kw:proxy
kw:publish
kw:pyOpenSSL
kw:pyasn1
kw:pycparser
kw:pycrypto
kw:pycrypto-lib
kw:pycryptopp
kw:pyfilesystem
kw:pyflakes
kw:pylint
kw:pypi
kw:pypy
kw:pysqlite
kw:python
kw:python3
kw:pythonpath
kw:pyutil
kw:pywin32
kw:quickstart
kw:quiet
kw:quotas
kw:quoting
kw:raic
kw:rainhill
kw:random
kw:random-access
kw:range
kw:raspberry-pi
kw:reactor
kw:readonly
kw:rebalancing
kw:recovery
kw:recursive
kw:redhat
kw:redirect
kw:redressing
kw:refactor
kw:referer
kw:referrer
kw:regression
kw:rekey
kw:relay
kw:release
kw:release-blocker
kw:reliability
kw:relnotes
kw:remote
kw:removable
kw:removable-disk
kw:rename
kw:renew
kw:repair
kw:replace
kw:report
kw:repository
kw:research
kw:reserved_space
kw:response-needed
kw:response-time
kw:restore
kw:retrieve
kw:retry
kw:review
kw:review-needed
kw:reviewed
kw:revocation
kw:roadmap
kw:rollback
kw:rpm
kw:rsa
kw:rss
kw:rst
kw:rsync
kw:rusty
kw:s3
kw:s3-backend
kw:s3-frontend
kw:s4
kw:same-origin
kw:sandbox
kw:scalability
kw:scaling
kw:scheduling
kw:schema
kw:scheme
kw:scp
kw:scripts
kw:sdist
kw:sdmf
kw:security
kw:self-contained
kw:server
kw:servermap
kw:servers-of-happiness
kw:service
kw:setup
kw:setup.py
kw:setup_requires
kw:setuptools
kw:setuptools_darcs
kw:sftp
kw:shared
kw:shareset
kw:shell
kw:signals
kw:simultaneous
kw:six
kw:size
kw:slackware
kw:slashes
kw:smb
kw:sneakernet
kw:snowleopard
kw:socket
kw:solaris
kw:space
kw:space-efficiency
kw:spam
kw:spec
kw:speed
kw:sqlite
kw:ssh
kw:ssh-keygen
kw:sshfs
kw:ssl
kw:stability
kw:standards
kw:start
kw:startup
kw:static
kw:static-analysis
kw:statistics
kw:stats
kw:stats_gatherer
kw:status
kw:stdeb
kw:storage
kw:streaming
kw:strports
kw:style
kw:stylesheet
kw:subprocess
kw:sumo
kw:survey
kw:svg
kw:symlink
kw:synchronous
kw:tac
kw:tahoe-*
kw:tahoe-add-alias
kw:tahoe-admin
kw:tahoe-archive
kw:tahoe-backup
kw:tahoe-check
kw:tahoe-cp
kw:tahoe-create-alias
kw:tahoe-create-introducer
kw:tahoe-debug
kw:tahoe-deep-check
kw:tahoe-deepcheck
kw:tahoe-lafs-trac-stream
kw:tahoe-list-aliases
kw:tahoe-ls
kw:tahoe-magic-folder
kw:tahoe-manifest
kw:tahoe-mkdir
kw:tahoe-mount
kw:tahoe-mv
kw:tahoe-put
kw:tahoe-restart
kw:tahoe-rm
kw:tahoe-run
kw:tahoe-start
kw:tahoe-stats
kw:tahoe-unlink
kw:tahoe-webopen
kw:tahoe.css
kw:tahoe_files
kw:tahoewapi
kw:tarball
kw:tarballs
kw:tempfile
kw:templates
kw:terminology
kw:test
kw:test-and-set
kw:test-from-egg
kw:test-needed
kw:testgrid
kw:testing
kw:tests
kw:throttling
kw:ticket999-s3-backend
kw:tiddly
kw:time
kw:timeout
kw:timing
kw:to
kw:to-be-closed-on-2011-08-01
kw:tor
kw:tor-protocol
kw:torsocks
kw:tox
kw:trac
kw:transparency
kw:travis
kw:travis-ci
kw:trial
kw:trickle
kw:trivial
kw:truckee
kw:tub
kw:tub.location
kw:twine
kw:twistd
kw:twistd.log
kw:twisted
kw:twisted-14
kw:twisted-trial
kw:twitter
kw:twn
kw:txaws
kw:type
kw:typeerror
kw:ubuntu
kw:ucwe
kw:ueb
kw:ui
kw:unclean
kw:uncoordinated-writes
kw:undeletable
kw:unfinished-business
kw:unhandled-error
kw:unhappy
kw:unicode
kw:unit
kw:unix
kw:unlink
kw:update
kw:upgrade
kw:upload
kw:upload-helper
kw:uri
kw:url
kw:usability
kw:use-case
kw:utf-8
kw:util
kw:uwsgi
kw:ux
kw:validation
kw:variables
kw:vdrive
kw:verify
kw:verlib
kw:version
kw:versioning
kw:versions
kw:video
kw:virtualbox
kw:virtualenv
kw:vista
kw:visualization
kw:visualizer
kw:vm
kw:volunteergrid2
kw:volunteers
kw:vpn
kw:wapi
kw:warners-opinion-needed
kw:warning
kw:weapi
kw:web
kw:web.port
kw:webapi
kw:webdav
kw:webdrive
kw:webport
kw:websec
kw:website
kw:websocket
kw:welcome
kw:welcome-page
kw:welcomepage
kw:wiki
kw:win32
kw:win64
kw:windows
kw:windows-related
kw:winscp
kw:workaround
kw:world-domination
kw:wrapper
kw:write-enabler
kw:wui
kw:x86
kw:x86-64
kw:xhtml
kw:xml
kw:xss
kw:zbase32
kw:zetuptoolz
kw:zfec
kw:zookos-opinion-needed
kw:zope
kw:zope.interface
p/blocker
p/critical
p/major
p/minor
p/normal
p/supercritical
p/trivial
r/cannot reproduce
r/duplicate
r/fixed
r/invalid
r/somebody else's problem
r/was already fixed
r/wontfix
r/worksforme
t/defect
t/enhancement
t/task
v/0.2.0
v/0.3.0
v/0.4.0
v/0.5.0
v/0.5.1
v/0.6.0
v/0.6.1
v/0.7.0
v/0.8.0
v/0.9.0
v/1.0.0
v/1.1.0
v/1.10.0
v/1.10.1
v/1.10.2
v/1.10a2
v/1.11.0
v/1.12.0
v/1.12.1
v/1.13.0
v/1.14.0
v/1.15.0
v/1.15.1
v/1.2.0
v/1.3.0
v/1.4.1
v/1.5.0
v/1.6.0
v/1.6.1
v/1.7.0
v/1.7.1
v/1.7β
v/1.8.0
v/1.8.1
v/1.8.2
v/1.8.3
v/1.8β
v/1.9.0
v/1.9.0-s3branch
v/1.9.0a1
v/1.9.0a2
v/1.9.0b1
v/1.9.1
v/1.9.2
v/1.9.2a1
v/cloud-branch
v/unknown
No project
No assignees
4 participants
Notifications
Due date
No due date set.
Dependencies
No dependencies set.
Reference: tahoe-lafs/trac#668
Loading…
Add table
Reference in a new issue
No description provided.
Delete branch "%!s()"
Deleting a branch is permanent. Although the deleted branch may continue to exist for a short time before it actually gets removed, it CANNOT be undone in most cases. Continue?
Trying to install Tahoe 1.3.0 with easy_install fails with this message.
This was tested on Ubuntu intrepid and Debian lenny machines using Python 2.5.
However, installation from the tarball (python setup.py install) works fine.
That's because
setuptools >= 0.6c12dev
is actuallyzetuptoolz
-- our own toothpick of setuptools: http://allmydata.org/trac/zetuptoolzI hadn't realized that this breaks
easy_install
. I would like to fix this ASAP, but I'm not sure how.Okay, I think I know how to fix this (just by renaming our version of setuptools to "zetuptoolz", but I don't understand why the current unit tests (such as this one: http://allmydata.org/buildbot/builders/Shawn%20intrepid%20amd64/builds/127/steps/install-egg/logs/stdio ) don't catch this bug, and I don't want to change the build/install code just before a release. So, tahoe 1.4.0 will ship with this bug and I'll move this ticket into the 1.4.1 Milestone.
This issue is causing at least the following failures to build/install:
http://allmydata.org/buildbot/builders/zooko%20ootles%20Mac-amd64%2010.4/builds/196/steps/build/logs/stdio
http://allmydata.org/buildbot-zfec/builders/BlackDew%20debian-unstable-i386/builds/10/steps/stdeb/logs/stdio
From IRC:
#721 was a duplicate of this (with useful information in the bug report).
Sigh. I hate to allow this issue to remain unfixed, but there really isn't a good reason to hold up the TahoeLAFS v1.5 release on it. The official install instructions http://allmydata.org/source/tahoe/trunk/docs/install.html currently work on all supported platforms as far as I know, and all of the "flunkOnFailure" building/packaging buildsteps on all of the SupportedBuilders are passing.
Therefore, by invoking the definition of "Supported" to exclude everyone for whom this system does not currently work, I hereby bump this ticket out of the v1.5 Milestone. :-)
Replying to zooko:
Unfortunately, it's failing for me on intrepid with an apparently-related symptom:
Thank you for your bug report. Your problem is related to but not the same as this one. I've opened a new ticket for your issue -- #803 (python ./setup.py install -- can't create or remove files in install directory).
[14:40] zooko: I switched to distribute and ran the test suite with tahoe and everything seems good to me :) I also did an easy_install of tahoe with distribute and it worked, but it installed setuptools since it's explicitly listed in the install_requires
[14:41] I would like to test it on some other platforms, and if it works out I think we can safely change the install_requires to distribute if it is ok with you.
Replacing zetuptoolz with Distribute, as Chris is currently doing, might effect #709, #717, #756, #763, #799, and possibly quite a few others. :-)
setuptools delenda est.
My plan is to try replacing setuptools with distribute as well as submitting a couple of patches to distribute (http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/136/respect-the-pythonpath and http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/46/be-more-like-distutils-with-regard-to ).
I'm very happy to report that since I updated
pycryptopp
tov0.5.28
, that nowsudo easy_install allmydata-tahoe
works on my Mac OS X laptop even if I have none of the dependencies pre-installed [*].Now if only we had an automated test which would go red if
sudo easy_install allmydata-tahoe
were to ever stop working...(Probably it already worked before I updated
pycryptopp
if you were usingeasy_install
as provided bysetuptools
, but if youreasy_install
is provided bydistribute
then you need the workaround inpycryptopp-0.5.28
for this distribute bug.)([*] Except the
pycrypto
dependency doesn't work because http://pycrypto.org is unreachable (as it has been for days) but the PyPI record at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pycrypto/2.3 shows http://www.pycrypto.org/files/pycrypto-2.3.tar.gz as the "Download URL" soeasy_install
always tries to download that file if it needspycrypto
and then aborts the Tahoe-LAFS build when it can't connect to pycrypto.org. The only work-around I can come up with for this at the moment is to add--find-links=<http://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe-lafs/deps/tahoe-lafs-dep-sdists/>
to youreasy_install
command-line.)Hooray! It works. I had to update
pycryptopp
andzfec
to avoid build-dependencies, and someone (presumably dlitz) had to fix http://pycrypto.org to work again, but noweasy_install allmydata-tahoe
works! :-)Now if only we had some sort of regression test of this functionality then I would be happy to close this ticket...
Replying to zooko:
Be careful: if you use
easy_install allmydata-tahoe
to install into a directory where other Python packages that are Tahoe dependencies are installed, and then later try to run a newer version from a build using the newer version'sbin/tahoe
, then you may get an error because the older version is found by mistake. This shouldn't happen, but it can because of #1246 #1258.(
setup.py install
has the same problem.)I therefore think that we should be recommending against installing Tahoe to any site directories (which is where
easy_install
will put it by default). It should be safe to install it to a fresh directory usingeasy_install allmydata-tahoe --prefix=<some fresh directory>
.Also note that
easy_install
is some random version of setuptools or distribute, so who knows what bugs it has?Oh, we also need to commit a fix to #1054 (ImportError: No module named setuptools_darcs.setuptools_darcs) to trunk before this will work.
I agree that we shouldn't recommend
easy_install allmydata-tahoe
as a way to set up Tahoe-LAFS, for the reasons you gave. Also because there are other improvements that we've implemented in our primary, supported method of setting up--quickstart.html--such as #1233 (prefer binary eggs which satisfy dependencies over source eggs which are even newer).However,
easy_install
(and its cousinpip
, which I hope also works now) are very popular, so I'm happy if Tahoe-LAFS is compatible with them.In particular, this means that if there were another Python project which depended on Tahoe-LAFS, that project could mark Tahoe-LAFS as a
requirement
and then builds/installs of that project would automatically set up Tahoe-LAFS and all of its dependencies.Replying to [zooko]comment:22:
Shouldn't recommend, or should recommend against?
I'd like us to recommend against.
Yes, no problem with that. The bugs that are fixed in order to enable
easy_install
to work, are bugs that need fixing anyway.Replying to [davidsarah]comment:19:
You could always recommend that people always install in a virtualenv.
Replying to [bewst]comment:24:
There's no particular advantage to that (especially for people who aren't already using virtualenv) over always doing a build rather than an install.
I thought build was a subset of install. How do you get stuff into the PYTHONPATH, etc., if you just do a build? Manually?
Replying to [davidsarah]comment:23:
We should definitely focus on quickstart.html, and don't offer people alternatives to quickstart.html unless they specifically ask or have some specific needs that don't fit quickstart.html.
I personally wouldn't go so far as to recommend against using
easy_install
just because it is sort of beyond the scope of Tahoe-LAFS. Once we merge #1054 then Tahoe-LAFS works witheasy_install
at least as well as any other Python package does, and people have developed their own opinions and techniques about it. On the other hand, your specific reason to recommend against it is novel as far as I know and potentially quite useful knowledge to others. It isn't Tahoe-LAFS specific and might be best expressed in a bug report or an email message to distutils-sig.So, I'm ±0 on dis-recommending
easy_install allmydata-tahoe
.Replying to bewst:
When the user follows these instructions:
http://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe-lafs/trunk/docs/quickstart.html
Then the "executable" that is created, named
bin/tahoe
(relative to the root of the tahoe-lafs source tree) sets up the necessary paths and so on.I'm pretty pleased about this! I think it is nice that users can build and execute tahoe without having to "install" it, which usually requires greater privileges and can cause lots of collateral damage to their system. It is an example of the Principle of Least Authority. :-)
That doesn't mean, of course, that we try to make it hard to install if installing is what you really want to do. You can accomplish it in several ways, one of which is
sudo python setup.py install
.I will test this manually before the 1.8.2 final release.
we've manually tested this on ubuntu/maverick and ubuntu/lucid, and
easy_install ./allmydata-tahoe-*.zip
works. In addition,pip install ./tahoe.zip
works on a maverick box. easy_install docs not work on a debian/lenny box because of some (Nevow-needs-zope.interface) problems that run into a bug in the older version of setuptools on lenny. Zooko tested easy_install on his OS-X box.Good enough to ship!