[arch-general] Pip2 commands throw error

[Squall Lionheart]

On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 3:01 AM, Felix Yan <felixonmars at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Friday, August 16, 2013 14:49:49 Squall Lionheart wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Since upgrading to version 1.4.1 in July of python2-pip, I have been
> > receiving this Exception on the commands I execute.  Received an update
> to
> > version 1.4.1-1 today and the error persists.  This is a desktop machine
> > and I get the same error on a server running Parabola.  I tried a manual
> > install of pip-1.4.1 and distribute on Slackware and everything runs as
> it
> > should.  Have not tried the manual install on Arch yet since I would
> prefer
> > to use the packaged versions.
> >
> > Please help.
> >
> > $ pip2 list
> > caatinga (1.0.1)
> > clojure-py (0.2.4)
> > distribute (0.6.28)
> > Fabric (1.7.0)
> > git-remote-helpers (0.1.0)
> > logilab-astng (0.24.3)
> > logilab-common (0.60.0)
> > netsnmp-python (1.0a1)
> > paramiko (1.11.0)
> > pep8 (1.4.6)
> > pip (1.4.1)
> > pycrypto (2.6)
> > pylint (0.28.0)
> > python-libtorrent (0.16.10)
> > Exception:
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/basecommand.py", line 134,
> in
> > main
> >     status = self.run(options, args)
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/commands/list.py", line 80,
> in
> > run
> >     self.run_listing(options)
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/commands/list.py", line 127,
> > in run_listing
> >     self.output_package_listing(installed_packages)
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/commands/list.py", line 136,
> > in output_package_listing
> >     if dist_is_editable(dist):
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/util.py", line 347, in
> > dist_is_editable
> >     req = FrozenRequirement.from_dist(dist, [])
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/__init__.py", line 194, in
> > from_dist
> >     assert len(specs) == 1 and specs[0][0] == '=='
> > AssertionError
> >
> > Storing complete log in /home/squall/.pip/pip.log
> >
> >
> > The contents of pip.log are the same as the error output.
> >
> >
> > Thank you
> >
> > Squall
>
> Same for me when using python2-distribute 0.6.45-1, but after upgrading to
> testing/python2-setuptools 0.9.8-1 the error was gone.
>
> Regards,
> Felix Yan


Upgraded today to python2-setuptools  0.9.8-1 from extra and still get the
same errors.  Tried removing and reinstalling the python2-pip package and
that had no affect.