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From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2022 20:19:16 -0500
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Looking for a solution to the distutils/setuptools
.egg-info mess
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On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 9:43 AM Micha=C5=82 G=C3=B3rny <mgorny@gentoo.org> =
wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2022-01-10 at 06:39 +0100, Micha=C5=82 G=C3=B3rny wrote:
> > 4. We could have the eclasses switch to "local" model and rename
> > the .egg-info files somehow at some point. The main question is "renam=
e
> > how?"
> >
>
> If anyone's interested, I've published a proof-of-concept for this:
>
> https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/23721
>
> Long story short, the eclass detects if vendored distutils are being
> used and renames the directories from .egg-info to .g.egg-info then.
> This basically means the tag changes from e.g. "py3.8" to "py3.8.g".
> I'm testing this approach now and it doesn't seem to break anything.
A possible alternative would be to define pkg_preinst in the eclass
and have it move the .egg-info file out of the way before portage
tries to replace it with a directory. That would be a significant API
change for distutils-r1 though.