[SOLVED]Gentoo always purging my custom python applications

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drseergio · Post by **drseergio** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 2:17 pm

I am using few applications outside of portage. One of such applications is calibre, I install it by issuing:

wget -O- http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/downloads/calibre-0.4.141.tar.gz | tar xvz 
cd calibre*
sudo python setup.py build && sudo python setup.py install
sudo calibre_postinstall

However, once in a while the installation gets corrupted by Python. I see this:

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...
 * Cleaning orphaned Python bytecode from /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages ..
 * Purging /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/calibre-0.4.141-py2.5-linux-i686.egg/odf/xforms.py[co]
...

So the application gets removed. Is there a way to avoid this?

nixnut · Post by **nixnut** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 2:28 pm

1. make an ebuild for it so portage knows it exists
2. install it somewhere else and add that path to the python path environment variable when you run python stuff that needs those files

drseergio · Post by **drseergio** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 3:12 pm

1. Well, there is an ebuild already which is way too outdated and I understand why - is not worth it at this point since it's updated almost every week.

2. Isn't it possible to install it in the same path but somehow notify python that it is not an "orphan" and pretty much welcomed on this system? It is basically working until Python starts cleaning up stuff it thinks is loose.

alistair · Post by **alistair** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 11:04 pm

drseergio wrote:1. Well, there is an ebuild already which is way too outdated and I understand why - is not worth it at this point since it's updated almost every week.

From what ive seen it shouldn't be difficult to bump it every couple of weeks.

cp <old> <new>
ebuild <new> manifest

profit.

drseergio wrote: 2. Isn't it possible to install it in the same path but somehow notify python that it is not an "orphan" and pretty much welcomed on this system? It is basically working until Python starts cleaning up stuff it thinks is loose.

No. and you shouldn't be installing packages into /usr anyway. /usr/local is for non-package-manager files, everything else should be expected to be under the control of a package manager.

drseergio · Post by **drseergio** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 11:59 am

Right, well, that makes sense now. Thanks for pointing out!

Naib · Post by **Naib** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 5:12 pm

yer make a local ebuild, having things under packagemanager control (esp when gentoo makes it sooo easy) brings loads of benefits

cwr · Post by **cwr** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 1:59 pm

You can lock stuff in place with "packages.provided", but I think you need an
ebuild to do that.

Will

drseergio · Post by **drseergio** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 12:14 am

Thanks for point out, guys. I have made an ebuild for the application, though it is not working yet but that's offtopic here. Conclusion = avoid custom python installs in the root.