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Debian-specific behavior lost when Setuptools adopts distutils

See original GitHub issue

pip install -e $PACKAGE_PATH installs commands to /usr/bin and not /usr/local/bin on Ubuntu as it did in the past.

pip install $PACKAGE_PATH continues to install to /usr/local/bin as expected.

Openstack downstream has temporarily capped setuptools until we know if this is expected behaviour or not. Please see http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-discuss/2020-July/015779.html for more context.

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Created 3 years ago
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encukoucommented, Aug 25, 2020

I only found out about this issue now 😦 Fedora is also affected. Is there a supported way to make distutils install to /usr/local/ by default, but still allow building installing into /usr/ (for system packages)? For reference, the Fedora patch is here.

cc @hroncok

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Kixunilcommented, Jul 25, 2020

Can someone explain to me why this is Debian-related? Putting stuff in /usr goes against Linux FHS, which explicitly states:

The /usr/local hierarchy is for use by the system administrator when installing software locally. It needs to be safe from being overwritten when the system software is updated. It may be used for programs and data that are shareable amongst a group of hosts, but not found in /usr.

Locally installed software must be placed within /usr/local rather than /usr unless it is being installed to replace or upgrade software in /usr.

So putting anything outside /usr/local can cause trouble on all Linux distributions, not just Debian.

Sorry if I’m missing something, I’m newbie in setuptools.

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