[chef] Re: Re: Issue with easy_install_package provider

[Grig Gheorghiu < >]

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 8:45 PM, Joe Williams 
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 wrote:
> Grig,
>
> I happened to write that provider. I found that it is difficult to detect 
> what python eggs are installed without attempting an import or scanning 
> through sys.path. Currently the provider should do it in that order but it 
> looks like it's exiting rather than getting rescued and trying to find it 
> in the sys.path. I'll work up a patch and get back to you.
>
> -Joe
>

Hi Joe

Thanks for the quick reply. You're right, the original package name
(dnspython) should have been found by inspecting sys.path. Not sure
why it wasn't found. Here's what I get when I run this line (from
https://github.com/opscode/chef/blob/master/chef/lib/chef/provider/package/easy_install.rb)
on my target node:


# python -c "import sys; print sys.path"
['', '/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/Jinja2-2.5.5-py2.6.egg',
'/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/isodate-0.4.3-py2.6.egg',
'/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/eventlet-0.9.13-py2.6.egg',
'/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/greenlet-0.3.1-py2.6-linux-x86_64.egg',
'/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/DBUtils-1.0-py2.6.egg',
'/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/boto-2.0b3-py2.6.egg',
'/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/amqplib-0.6.1-py2.6.egg',
'/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/dnspython-1.9.1-py2.6.egg',
'/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pydkim-0.3-py2.6.egg',
'/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/Django-1.2.3-py2.6.egg',
'/usr/lib/python2.6', '/usr/lib/python2.6/plat-linux2',
'/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-tk', '/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-old',
'/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload', '/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages',
'/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/PIL',
'/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6',
'/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/gtk-2.0',
'/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages']

Grig