[PEAK] [setuptools] installing with --root

P.J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Sun May 9 16:18:16 EDT 2010


At 03:31 PM 5/9/2010 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
>On 05/09/2010 02:34 PM, P.J. Eby wrote:
>>At 01:58 PM 5/9/2010 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
>>>Hello,
>>>
>>>Shouldn't the following command install in stage/usr/* instead of
>>>stage/home/$USER/.local?
>>
>>Not if your other installation options have established another
>>installation location, no. This is normal distutils behavior and
>>unrelated to setuptools.
>
>Which other installation options do you mean? I didn't specify any.

Check your .pydistutils.cfg and distutils/distutils.cfg files for an 
[install] section.



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>
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