[MacPorts] #16593: py25-setuptools 0.6c8 broken in a way I don't fully comprehend

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#16593: py25-setuptools 0.6c8 broken in a way I don't fully comprehend
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 Reporter:  macports at mail.taugt.net  |       Owner:  macports-tickets at lists.macosforge.org
     Type:  defect                   |      Status:  new                                  
 Priority:  Normal                   |   Milestone:  Port Bugs                            
Component:  ports                    |     Version:  1.6.0                                
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 Sorry for being kind of verbose, I tried to trim the problem down in irc
 but nobody could help me... so here goes:

 after installing py25-setuptools, easy_install does not work out of the
 box:

 $ echo $PYTHONPATH
 /Users/ace/lib/python2.5/site-packages    # this directory exists

 $ easy_install-2.5 --install-dir /Users/ace/lib/python2.5/site-packages
 pyamf
 error: /opt/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/site.py: No such file or
 directory


 this can be fixed:
 cd /opt/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages; sudo ln -s ../site.py


 but then, after re-running said easy_install command, I cannot import
 pyamf - I have to do a

 $ cd /Users/ace/lib/python2.5/site-packages
 $ unzip PyAMF-0.3.1-py2.5.egg


 easy_install creates a suspicious pth file in /Users/ace/lib/python2.5
 /site-packages:

 $ cat easy-install.pth
 import sys; sys.__plen = len(sys.path)
 ./PyAMF-0.3.1-py2.5.egg
 import sys; new=sys.path[sys.__plen:]; del sys.path[sys.__plen:];
 p=getattr(sys,'__egginsert',0); sys.path[p:p]=new; sys.__egginsert =
 p+len(new)

 ... from what I gather by reading site.py, a pth file should contain only
 path names, not python code.

 also, it seems to copy site.py to that directory and then trip on it - if
 I re-run easy_install, I get:

 $ easy_install-2.5 --install-dir /Users/ace/lib/python2.5/site-packages
 pyamf
 error: /Users/ace/lib/python2.5/site-packages/site.py is not a setuptools-
 generated site.py; please remove it.

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