Re: [gentoo-python] [PATCH] distutils-r1: Move egg-base to ${BUILD_DIR}/egg-info and prepend to PYTHONPATH

[Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>]

On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 1:36 PM, W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us> wrote:
>> On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 08:57:58PM -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote:
>>> This resolves a testing failure in dev-python/cryptography-1.6.1.
>>>
>>> cryptography.hazmat.backends._available_backends() scans the
>>> available setuptools entry_points, and so depends on having a valid
>>> egg-info/entry_points.txt file available.
>>
>> This sounds like the issue fixed by my Setuptools patch [1,2].  If I
>> can reproduce the test failure and confirm that my Setuptools patch
>> fixes it, can we use my patch when building Setuptools until it lands
>> upstream?
>>
>
> That looks related, but I'm not sure it would resolve the problem with
> dev-python/cryptography.
>
> Would you mind testing that to confirm? You would want to install a
> copy of setuptools with your patch applied, remove RESTRICT=test in
> cryptography-1.6.1, and then run the tests via the ebuild.

Oh, my reading comprehension is not so good at the moment; I realized
you just offered to do exactly that.

I would certainly consider applying a patch to setuptools to resolve
it, though I would prefer upstream to accept it first. I don't want to
end up carrying it forever.