I could be wrong, but this sounds like a python/python2 issue.

My guess is that you call "python setup.py ..." instead of "python2 setup.py ....".

M

2011/7/24 Simon Bonner simonjbonner@gmail.com

Hi,

I'm a user of nssbackup and noticed today that the package has been out-of-date for a while. A comment was posted to the maintainer on Feb 7 and the package was flagged out of date on Feb 21, but it seems that no action has been taken since.

I'd be happy to maintain it if someone can offer a little help with building the new version. I've tried building both the most recent 0.2 release and the new 0.3.1 release, and neither currently work. Both give the same error message:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "setup.py", line 3, in <module> from setuptools import setup, find_packages ImportError: No module named setuptools

I've seen that several packages have had similar errors fixed by installing the python2-distribute package, but I have this installed already.

Thanks for your help,

Simon

On Sun, 2011-07-24 at 14:29 -0400, Dave Reisner wrote:

On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 01:34:32PM -0400, Simon Bonner wrote:

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Hi,

I'm a user of nssbackup and noticed today that the package has been out-of-date for a while. A comment was posted to the maintainer on Feb 7 and the package was flagged out of date on Feb 21, but it seems that no action has been taken since.

I'd be happy to maintain it if someone can offer a little help with building the new version. I've tried building both the most recent 0.2 release and the new 0.3.1 release, and neither currently work. Both give the same error message:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "setup.py", line 3, in <module> from setuptools import setup, find_packages ImportError: No module named setuptools

I've seen that several packages have had similar errors fixed by installing the python2-distribute package, but I have this installed already.

Thanks for your help,

Simon

The name doesn't lie. Not. So. Simple.

This build-sys is utterly insane. Upstream has done an amazing job of stopping packagers at every turn if you're not a debian distro. It's really more than just changing setup.py to use python2, it's a whole host of removing the crazy. I've no idea if this actually works, but it builds without errors:

http://pkgbuild.com/~dreisner/nssbackup-0.3.1-1.src.tar.gz

dave

Thanks Dave! I gave your PKGBUILD a try and the package did build and install, but... the individual python scripts also call python instead of python2, which needed to be changed.

Unfortunately, it's now complaining that I don't have a gnome-session running. I switched from gnome to XFCE several months ago and must still have had gnome services running in the background so that Nssbackup continued to work. Hmmm... not sure if I want to do that again or start thinking about a different backup solution.

Thanks for taking the time to figure out the PKGBUILD. Much appreciated!

Cheers,

Simon