Ubuntu Karmic Koala and Python setuptools
October 5th, 2009 by kc
This weekend I’ve upgrade my laptop to Ubuntu Karmic Koala. The upgrade was easy and Karmic looks and runs smoother than the previous version. I encountered one small problem with Python setuptools and subversion.
I use Setuptools 0.6c9 to create Python eggs. It happens that the latest Setuptools won’t play well with subversion 1.6 (shipped with Karmic).
When creating an egg with:
python setup.py bdist_egg
I got this error:
subversion unrecognized .svn/entries format
You can fix this by running a patch from the setuptools team, download the most recent patch from the issue page. Find out where setuptools lives in your site-packages and apply the patch. More details here if you’re not familiar with site-packages and applying patches.