The permissions changed on the egg directory. They need a chmod u+r. This change to 0.8.0 causes fink to install an unreadable egg dir. I'm on mac osx 10.8.

ls -la python2/httplib2.egg-info/ total 32 drwxr-x--- 6 schwehr staff 204 Mar 6 12:40 . drwxr-x--- 6 schwehr staff 204 Mar 6 12:40 .. -rw-r----- 1 schwehr staff 2337 Mar 6 12:40 PKG-INFO -rw-r----- 1 schwehr staff 787 Mar 6 12:40 SOURCES.txt -rw-r----- 1 schwehr staff 1 Mar 6 12:40 dependency_links.txt -rw-r----- 1 schwehr staff 9 Mar 6 12:40 top_level.txt

When installed, this happens: ls -l /sw/lib/python2.7/site-packages/httplib2-0.8-py2.7.egg-info/ total 32 -rw-r----- 1 root admin 2337 Mar 13 17:55 PKG-INFO -rw-r----- 1 root admin 787 Mar 13 17:55 SOURCES.txt -rw-r----- 1 root admin 1 Mar 13 17:55 dependency_links.txt -rw-r----- 1 root admin 9 Mar 13 17:55 top_level.txt

/sw/bin/python2.7 setup.py build Traceback (most recent call last): File "setup.py", line 2, in <module> from setuptools import setup File "/sw/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/init.py", line 2, in <module> from setuptools.extension import Extension, Library File "/sw/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/extension.py", line 5, in <module> from setuptools.dist import _get_unpatched File "/sw/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 6, in <module> from setuptools.command.install import install File "/sw/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/command/init.py", line 8, in <module> from setuptools.command import install_scripts File "/sw/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/command/install_scripts.py", line 3, in <module> from pkg_resources import Distribution, PathMetadata, ensure_directory File "/sw/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2825, in <module> add_activation_listener(lambda dist: dist.activate()) File "/sw/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 710, in subscribe callback(dist) File "/sw/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2825, in <lambda> add_activation_listener(lambda dist: dist.activate()) File "/sw/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2257, in activate self.insert_on(path) File "/sw/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2364, in insert_on self.check_version_conflict() File "/sw/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2403, in check_version_conflict for modname in self._get_metadata('top_level.txt'): File "/sw/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2251, in _get_metadata for line in self.get_metadata_lines(name): File "/sw/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 1219, in get_metadata_lines return yield_lines(self.get_metadata(name)) File "/sw/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 1211, in get_metadata return self._get(self._fn(self.egg_info,name)) File "/sw/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 1326, in _get stream = open(path, 'rb') IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/sw/lib/python2.7/site-packages/httplib2-0.8-py2.7.egg-info/top_level.txt'

execution of /sw/bin/python2.7 failed, exit code 1

execution of /tmp/fink.xTMpz failed, exit code 1

Look like macports hit the same issue: http://trac.macports.org/ticket/36193 Thanks to fangism for making the connection.

This is causing distribution issues for me on our servers - python is not run as root(!) and hence my web processes cannot read the files. This is 5 months old, any idea when it will be addressed?

Hey this issue has been open since March and remains unaddressed... whats going on with it?

This is crazy. It breaks any installation which doesn't run as root (ie. any installation by a sane person). Why isn't this a high priority?!