When installing to a destdir with pip install --prefix= --root=, pip tries to
uninstall the existing root-owned package and fails
Fixes:
python3 -m pip install --prefix=/usr `test -n "/tmp/selinux-release//build-master" && echo --root /tmp/selinux-release//build-master` .
Processing /tmp/selinux-release/selinux-master/python/sepolicy
Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... done
Building wheels for collected packages: sepolicy
Building wheel for sepolicy (setup.py) ... done
Created wheel for sepolicy: filename=sepolicy-3.4-py3-none-any.whl size=1663564 sha256=229546db123e7d84613d190d49c192291b1a4f7f2a037657b39283b04ac391a4
Stored in directory: /tmp/pip-ephem-wheel-cache-50r2x4cn/wheels/b2/9e/63/6a6212a84d65a709923228719d065ed34e66a90c7fed01e8cf
Successfully built sepolicy
Installing collected packages: sepolicy
Attempting uninstall: sepolicy
Found existing installation: sepolicy 3.4
Uninstalling sepolicy-3.4:
ERROR: Could not install packages due to an OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'generate.py'
Consider using the `--user` option or check the permissions.
---
python/sepolicy/Makefile | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/python/sepolicy/Makefile b/python/sepolicy/Makefile
index 57a2e55e..4e9e93d0 100644
--- a/python/sepolicy/Makefile
+++ b/python/sepolicy/Makefile
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ test:
@$(PYTHON) test_sepolicy.py -v
install:
- $(PYTHON) -m pip install --prefix=$(PREFIX) `test -n "$(DESTDIR)" && echo --root $(DESTDIR)` $(PYTHON_SETUP_ARGS) .
+ $(PYTHON) -m pip install --prefix=$(PREFIX) `test -n "$(DESTDIR)" && echo --root $(DESTDIR) --ignore-installed --no-deps` $(PYTHON_SETUP_ARGS) .
[ -d $(DESTDIR)$(BINDIR) ] || mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(BINDIR)
install -m 755 sepolicy.py $(DESTDIR)$(BINDIR)/sepolicy
(cd $(DESTDIR)$(BINDIR); ln -sf sepolicy sepolgen)
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2.38.2
