Fix for issue #100

[cread]

I also had issue #100 on Ubuntu 12.04 and 14.04 systems when I upgraded to the latest version of the Python cookbook.

I tracked it down to get-pip.py refusing to install pip on my systems unless the python-setuptools package was installed first. If you get that fixed, then later on in the package it will upgrade setuptools for you.

I have this fix running successfully on my systems now.

[coderanger]

Hmm, can you paste the error you get from get-pip? pip as of 1.5 no longer depends on setuptools itself, it should only be needed if you are installing sdists instead of wheels.

[cread]

Here is the output from pip.log when recipe[[email protected]] fails on a minimal Ubuntu 14.04 installation. I get the same error on Ubuntu 12.04 too.

get-pip.py run on Fri May 23 10:29:20 2014 Downloading/unpacking pip Getting page http://pypi-mirror/pip/ URLs to search for versions for pip: * http://pypi-mirror/pip/ http://pypi-mirror/pip/ uses an insecure transport scheme (http). Consider using https if pypi-mirror has it available * http://pypi/simple/pip/ http://pypi/simple/pip/ uses an insecure transport scheme (http). Consider using https if pypi has it available Analyzing links from page http://pypi-mirror/pip/ Found link http://pypi-mirror/pip/pip-0.2.1.tar.gz#md5=d2af655c1a87e03799442d045c1d6743 (from http://pypi-mirror/pip/), version: 0.2.1 Found link http://pypi-mirror/pip/pip-0.2.tar.gz#md5=9eda07c8be7105aa774c7eb51c023294 (from http://pypi-mirror/pip/), version: 0.2 Found link http://pypi-mirror/pip/pip-0.3.1.tar.gz#md5=78102ddbb040a183dd361b5d432cdf88 (from http://pypi-mirror/pip/), version: 0.3.1 Found link http://pypi-mirror/pip/pip-0.3.tar.gz#md5=8fccb5b49c6377cbfb1949ccd7be43b3 (from http://pypi-mirror/pip/), version: 0.3 Found link http://pypi-mirror/pip/pip-0.4.tar.gz#md5=b45714d04f8fd38fe8e3d4c7600b91a2 (from http://pypi-mirror/pip/), version: 0.4 Found link http://pypi-mirror/pip/pip-0.5.1.tar.gz#md5=d4bdaa5f5f5bf8c6263ace75a0882232 (from http://pypi-mirror/pip/), version: 0.5.1 Found link http://pypi-mirror/pip/pip-0.5.tar.gz#md5=63eed8673e40628534cc0aa9c98e8f3d (from http://pypi-mirror/pip/), version: 0.5 Found link http://pypi-mirror/pip/pip-0.6.1.tar.gz#md5=7560e3055c66afb99ac4a7892389a237 (from http://pypi-mirror/pip/), version: 0.6.1 Found link http://pypi-mirror/pip/pip-0.6.2.tar.gz#md5=9a43e0a2ce8833069f41c347932bdb25 (from http://pypi-mirror/pip/), version: 0.6.2 Found link http://pypi-mirror/pip/pip-0.6.3.tar.gz#md5=0602fa9179cfaa98e41565d4a581d98c (from http://pypi-mirror/pip/), version: 0.6.3 Found link http://pypi-mirror/pip/pip-0.6.tar.gz#md5=083ff408ca5314cf0561ff79a048cd9a (from http://pypi-mirror/pip/), version: 0.6 Found link http://pypi-mirror/pip/pip-0.7.1.tar.gz#md5=420c83ad67bdcb542f772eb64392cce6 (from http://pypi-mirror/pip/), version: 0.7.1 Found link http://pypi-mirror/pip/pip-0.7.2.tar.gz#md5=cfe73090aaa0d3b0c104179a627859d1 (from http://pypi-mirror/pip/), version: 0.7.2 Found link http://pypi-mirror/pip/pip-0.7.tar.gz#md5=8d4b4f7266fe0808569182e6832d74ac (from http://pypi-mirror/pip/), version: 0.7 Found link http://pypi-mirror/pip/pip-0.8.1.tar.gz#md5=5d40614774781b118dd3f10c0d038cbc (from http://pypi-mirror/pip/), version: 0.8.1 Found link http://pypi-mirror/pip/pip-0.8.2.tar.gz#md5=df1eca0abe7643d92b5222240bed15f6 (from http://pypi-mirror/pip/), version: 0.8.2 Found link http://pypi-mirror/pip/pip-0.8.3.tar.gz#md5=0603337a81f83df2b1d2f1151565efac (from http://pypi-mirror/pip/), version: 0.8.3 Found link http://pypi-mirror/pip/pip-0.8.tar.gz#md5=468d9adc309f33ad51cee38f0d455429 (from http://pypi-mirror/pip/), version: 0.8 Found link http://pypi-mirror/pip/pip-1.0.1.tar.gz#md5=28dcc70225e5bf925532abc5b087a94b (from http://pypi-mirror/pip/), version: 1.0.1 Found link http://pypi-mirror/pip/pip-1.0.2.tar.gz#md5=47ec6ff3f6d962696fe08d4c8264ad49 (from http://pypi-mirror/pip/), version: 1.0.2 Found link http://pypi-mirror/pip/pip-1.0.tar.gz#md5=327fc4a03df189506966e15021730550 (from http://pypi-mirror/pip/), version: 1.0 Found link http://pypi-mirror/pip/pip-1.1.tar.gz#md5=62a9f08dd5dc69d76734568a6c040508 (from http://pypi-mirror/pip/), version: 1.1 Found link http://pypi-mirror/pip/pip-1.2.1.tar.gz#md5=db8a6d8a4564d3dc7f337ebed67b1a85 (from http://pypi-mirror/pip/), version: 1.2.1 Found link http://pypi-mirror/pip/pip-1.2.tar.gz#md5=99e44d1d7f88b182459e7c19c45aee9f (from http://pypi-mirror/pip/), version: 1.2 Found link http://pypi-mirror/pip/pip-1.3.1.tar.gz#md5=cbb27a191cebc58997c4da8513863153 (from http://pypi-mirror/pip/), version: 1.3.1 Found link http://pypi-mirror/pip/pip-1.3.tar.gz#md5=918559b784e2aca9559d498050bb86e7 (from http://pypi-mirror/pip/), version: 1.3 Found link http://pypi-mirror/pip/pip-1.4.1.tar.gz#md5=6afbb46aeb48abac658d4df742bff714 (from http://pypi-mirror/pip/), version: 1.4.1 Found link http://pypi-mirror/pip/pip-1.4.tar.gz#md5=ca790be30004937987767eac42cfa44a (from http://pypi-mirror/pip/), version: 1.4 Found link http://pypi-mirror/pip/pip-1.5.1.tar.gz#md5=4678c2ae5cce4e9234c3923d7dcb32f0 (from http://pypi-mirror/pip/), version: 1.5.1 Found link http://pypi-mirror/pip/pip-1.5.2.tar.gz#md5=5da30919f732d68b1c666e484e7676f5 (from http://pypi-mirror/pip/), version: 1.5.2 Found link http://pypi-mirror/pip/pip-1.5.3.tar.gz#md5=78871c5f84ea5fca61900347ce7864ad (from http://pypi-mirror/pip/), version: 1.5.3 Found link http://pypi-mirror/pip/pip-1.5.4.tar.gz#md5=834b2904f92d46aaa333267fb1c922bb (from http://pypi-mirror/pip/), version: 1.5.4 Found link http://pypi-mirror/pip/pip-1.5.5.tar.gz#md5=7520581ba0687dec1ce85bd15496537b (from http://pypi-mirror/pip/), version: 1.5.5 Found link http://pypi-mirror/pip/pip-1.5.6.tar.gz#md5=01026f87978932060cc86c1dc527903e (from http://pypi-mirror/pip/), version: 1.5.6 Found link http://pypi-mirror/pip/pip-1.5.tar.gz#md5=6969b8a8adc4c7f7c5eb1707118f0686 (from http://pypi-mirror/pip/), version: 1.5 Getting page http://pypi/simple/pip/ Could not fetch URL http://pypi/simple/pip/: 404 Client Error: Not Found Will skip URL http://pypi/simple/pip/ when looking for download links for pip Using version 1.5.6 (newest of versions: 1.5.6, 1.5.5, 1.5.4, 1.5.3, 1.5.2, 1.5.1, 1.5, 1.4.1, 1.4, 1.3.1, 1.3, 1.2.1, 1.2, 1.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.1, 1.0, 0.8.3, 0.8.2, 0.8.1, 0.8, 0.7.2, 0.7.1, 0.7, 0.6.3, 0.6.2, 0.6.1, 0.6, 0.5.1, 0.5, 0.4, 0.3.1, 0.3, 0.2.1, 0.2) Downloading from URL http://pypi-mirror/pip/pip-1.5.6.tar.gz#md5=01026f87978932060cc86c1dc527903e (from http://pypi-mirror/pip/) Cleaning up... Removing temporary dir /tmp/pip_build_root... setuptools must be installed to install from a source distribution Exception information: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/tmp/unpacker-vHcy4K-scratchdir/pip/basecommand.py", line 122, in main status = self.run(options, args) File "/tmp/unpacker-vHcy4K-scratchdir/pip/commands/install.py", line 274, in run requirement_set.prepare_files(finder, force_root_egg_info=self.bundle, bundle=self.bundle) File "/tmp/unpacker-vHcy4K-scratchdir/pip/req.py", line 1215, in prepare_files req_to_install.run_egg_info() File "/tmp/unpacker-vHcy4K-scratchdir/pip/req.py", line 288, in run_egg_info logger.notify('Running setup.py (path:%s) egg_info for package %s' % (self.setup_py, self.name)) File "/tmp/unpacker-vHcy4K-scratchdir/pip/req.py", line 269, in setup_py "setuptools must be installed to install from a source " InstallationError: setuptools must be installed to install from a source distribution 

Adding this patch fixes this on both platforms.

[naphthalene]

We had to write some ugly hacks to get around this issue. Any chance this can be merged @coderanger? The logic is sound @cread

[coderanger]

No, this is directly in contradiction with other code in the cookbook (also I don't want to depend on OS packages for setuptools). Happy to see more debugging data over on #100 though.