ports/182332: python packages install packed eggs which makes them unusable for running services
Kubilay Kocak
koobs.freebsd at gmail.com
Wed Oct 23 04:23:12 UTC 2013
Hi Volodymyr,
While it is a desirable (and planned) long-terms goal to have consistent
behaviour in the ports tree, there is not *yet* a formal or specific
documented policy regarding Python module packaging in FreeBSD.
A number of maintainers *do* however, make changes to upstream modules
by explicitly setting zip_safe=False in setup.py, or overriding the use
of setuptools with plain-old distutils, resulting in the module being
installed uncompressed.
For those modules or ports that *dont* currently do this such as
www/trac, the end-user *can* use the PYTHON_EGG_CACHE environment
variable that points to a writable area of the filesystem to address the
behaviour.
In short, I recommend that this PR be changed, assigning it to the
maintainer of the www/trac port for follow-up and resolution.
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