Re: [gentoo-user] setuptools (python) - how to disable the sandbox ?

[Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>]

On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 11:17 AM, Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@skynet.be> wrote:
> Hi,
> I want to create an ebuild for a package that's not in the tree
> (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/grako)
>
> Unfortunately, this always fails due to
>
>   File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/setuptools/sandbox.py", line 411,
> in _violation
>     raise SandboxViolation(operation, args, kw)
> setuptools.sandbox.SandboxViolation: SandboxViolation:
> open('/var/tmp/portage/dev-python/grako-3.99.9/work/grako-3.99.9-python3_6/lib/ptr.py',
> 'wb') {}
>
> I wouldn't mind the package to write to its own working directory
> /var/tmp/portage/dev-python/grako-3.99.9/work
> but I cannot find out how to disable setuptools.sandbox
>
> I've tried addwrite "$S" and FEATURES=-usersandbox  -sandbox
>
> but nothing helps.

The setup.py file for grako contains this line:

    setup_requires=['pytest-runner'],

You probably forgot to add a dependency on dev-python/pytest-runner to
your ebuild, or forgot to install it before testing.

A better solution yet is to patch setup.py to remove this line
altogether. It is only there to ensure that running "setup.py test"
will work, which is unimportant in an ebuild.