PEP453 // ensurepip // pip

[Neal Becker]

I think it was clearly explained here:

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2012-February/162518.html

I did not do the research into this explanation - it looks like others have
though.  I'm just the poor victim who's systems were trashed by this nasty
bug, which causes fedora update to abort leaving you with a mess.


On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 9:37 AM, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:

>
> On Mar 25, 2014, at 9:29 AM, Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Well just to be clear then, without resolving this issue (which, IMO, is
> a bug in cpio that should be fixed) it
> > is absolutely unsafe to ever use pip for non-local installs on fedora.
> >
>
> It might be because I'm still half asleep and trying to wake up, but I'm
> confused as to what is happening here, pip should never install a egg info
> file, it always imports setuptools so it always gets an egg-info directory.
> Are you seeing something different?
>
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