[Nix-dev] PYTHONPATH and eggs

[Cillian de Róiste]

On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 1:42 PM, Florian Friesdorf <flo at chaoflow.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 13:29:03 +0200, Mathijs Kwik <mathijs at bluescreen303.nl> wrote:
>> That's strange then :)
>>
>> I disabled the test too, but the problem remains.
>> Just to be clear, it's a warning, not an error:
>>
>> % bup meta
>> Warning: Linux xattr support missing; install python-pyxattr.
>> Warning: POSIX ACL support missing; install python-pylibacl.
>> usage: bup meta --create [OPTION ...] <PATH ...>
>>    or: bup meta --extract [OPTION ...]
>>    or: bup meta --start-extract [OPTION ...]
>>    or: bup meta --finish-extract [OPTION ...]
>
> sorry - I have the same - was looking out for python import errors.
>
>> How can I debug this further?
>
> % /nix/store/5qmz5wc596kl7rywx56phyl2gb0052w7-python-2.7.3/lib/python2.7/pdb.py .nix-profile/bin/bup
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/nix/store/5qmz5wc596kl7rywx56phyl2gb0052w7-python-2.7.3/lib/python2.7/pdb.py", line 1314, in main
>     pdb._runscript(mainpyfile)
>   File "/nix/store/5qmz5wc596kl7rywx56phyl2gb0052w7-python-2.7.3/lib/python2.7/pdb.py", line 1233, in _runscript
>     self.run(statement)
>   File "/nix/store/5qmz5wc596kl7rywx56phyl2gb0052w7-python-2.7.3/lib/python2.7/bdb.py", line 387, in run
>     exec cmd in globals, locals
>   File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
>   File ".nix-profile/bin/bup", line 2
>     export PYTHONPATH=/nix/store/ixp90035n4xrr6y4kcvcb36cd6rpcz0a-python-pyxattr-0.5.1/lib/python2.7/site-packages:/nix/store/kczagr8sv3yx355jy63byv7i7jngbx9v-python-pylibacl-0.5.1/lib/python2.7/site-packages:/nix/store/5qmz5wc596kl7rywx56phyl2gb0052w7-python-2.7.3/lib/python2.7/site-packages:/nix/store/93lbhnm76wlkmq7r0z8lwk3g9ch76hjp-git-1.7.11/lib/python2.7/site-packages${PYTHONPATH:+:}$PYTHONPATH
>                     ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> Uncaught exception. Entering post mortem debugging
> Running 'cont' or 'step' will restart the program
>> <string>(1)<module>()
> (Pdb)
>
> So the wrapper actually is not good.

If I understand correctly, you've run pdb on the wrapper, which is a
shell script, rather than the wrapped python code, is that right?