On Fri, 2017-01-20 at 09:12 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Fri, 2017-01-20 at 12:07 +0100, Jan Kurik wrote: > > = Proposed Self Contained Change: Making sudo pip Safe (Again) = > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Making_sudo_pip_safe > > > > Change owner(s): > > * Michal Cyprian <mcyprian AT redhat DOT com> > > * Petr Viktorin <pviktori AT redhat DOT com> > > * Tomas Orsava <torsava AT redhat DOT com> > > * Miro Hroncok <mhroncok AT redhat DOT com> > > > > > > At the present time, running sudo pip3 in Fedora is not safe. Pip > > shares its installation directory with dnf, can remove dnf-managed > > files and generally break the Python 3 interpreter. We propose a > > series of measures that will make it safe to use. > > > > > > == Detailed Description == > > The danger of using sudo pip3 stems from the fact that both Python > > dnf packages and sudo pip3 install modules to the same location, > > namely /usr/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages. > > > > We aim to move the working directory for sudo pip3 to a more > > appropriate location: /usr/local/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages, and > > modify the Python 3 interpreter in Fedora to scan both above > > mentioned locations when importing modules. > > This might also mean that we start using Python modules installed > from self-compiled applications, which might not be intended (we do > not include /usr/local/lib(64) in the default ldconfig path, AFAIK). In addition to that, if someone compiles and installs their own Python, it goes into /usr/local by default. (with the typical ./configure && make && make install) Which means that its modules would go into /usr/local/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages. The suggested change means that the system Python would use the modules intended for that local Python. (if they are the same version) -- Mathieu _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
