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| -rwxr-xr-x | python/setup.py | 19 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/python/setup.py b/python/setup.py index 2014f81b75..c5bc45919a 100755 --- a/python/setup.py +++ b/python/setup.py @@ -5,9 +5,26 @@ Copyright (c) 2020-2021 John Snow for Red Hat, Inc. """ import setuptools +from setuptools.command import bdist_egg +import sys import pkg_resources +class bdist_egg_guard(bdist_egg.bdist_egg): + """ + Protect against bdist_egg from being executed + + This prevents calling 'setup.py install' directly, as the 'install' + CLI option will invoke the deprecated bdist_egg hook. "pip install" + calls the more modern bdist_wheel hook, which is what we want. + """ + def run(self): + sys.exit( + 'Installation directly via setup.py is not supported.\n' + 'Please use `pip install .` instead.' + ) + + def main(): """ QEMU tooling installer @@ -16,7 +33,7 @@ def main(): # https://medium.com/@daveshawley/safely-using-setup-cfg-for-metadata-1babbe54c108 pkg_resources.require('setuptools>=39.2') - setuptools.setup() + setuptools.setup(cmdclass={'bdist_egg': bdist_egg_guard}) if __name__ == '__main__': |