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# Copyright 1999-2026 Gentoo Authors
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
EAPI=7
_PYTHON_ALLOW_PY27=1
DISTUTILS_OPTIONAL=1
PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 )
PYTHON_REQ_USE="xml(+)"
inherit distutils-r1_py2 pypi
MYPN="${PN/-python2/}"
MYP="${MYPN}-${PV}"
DESCRIPTION="Collection of extensions to Distutils"
HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/pypa/setuptools https://pypi.org/project/setuptools/"
SRC_URI="$(pypi_sdist_url "${MYPN}" "${PV}" .zip)"
S="${WORKDIR}/${MYP}"
LICENSE="MIT"
SLOT="0"
KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm64 ~x86"
REQUIRED_USE="${PYTHON_REQUIRED_USE}"
# DISTUTILS_OPTIONAL suppresses the eclass's PYTHON_DEPS and
# PYTHON_REQUIRED_USE, so the ebuild has to supply both. RDEPEND had neither:
# a package of Python 2 modules that depended on no interpreter. The literal
# dev-lang/python:2.7 that was in BDEPEND also dropped the PYTHON_REQ_USE
# above, so nothing required python built with xml support.
# verified 2026-07-27
RDEPEND="${PYTHON_DEPS}"
BDEPEND="${RDEPEND}
app-arch/unzip
"
# installing plugins apparently breaks stuff at runtime, so let's pull
# it early
PDEPEND="
>=dev-python/certifi-python2-2016.9.26[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
dev-python/setuptools_scm-python2[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]"
# Force in-source build because build system modifies sources.
DISTUTILS_IN_SOURCE_BUILD=1
DOCS=( {CHANGES,README}.rst docs/{easy_install.txt,pkg_resources.txt,setuptools.txt} )
src_prepare_all() {
# silence the py2 warning that is awfully verbose and breaks some
# packages by adding unexpected output
# (also, we know!)
sed -i -e '/py2_warn/d' pkg_resources/__init__.py || die
# disable tests requiring a network connection
rm setuptools/tests/test_packageindex.py || die
# don't run integration tests
rm setuptools/tests/test_integration.py || die
# xpass-es for me on py3
sed -e '/xfail.*710/s:(:(six.PY2, :' \
-i setuptools/tests/test_archive_util.py || die
# avoid pointless dep on flake8
sed -i -e 's:--flake8::' pytest.ini || die
distutils-r1_python_prepare_all
}
python_test() {
if ! python_is_python3; then
einfo "Tests are skipped on py2 to untangle deps"
return
fi
distutils_install_for_testing
# test_easy_install raises a SandboxViolation due to ${HOME}/.pydistutils.cfg
# It tries to sandbox the test in a tempdir
HOME="${PWD}" pytest -vv ${MYPN} || die "Tests failed under ${EPYTHON}"
}
src_compile() {
python_foreach_impl _distutils-r1_copy_egg_info
python_foreach_impl esetup.py build "${build_args[@]}" "${@}"
}
src_install() {
export DISTRIBUTE_DISABLE_VERSIONED_EASY_INSTALL_SCRIPT=1
python_foreach_impl distutils-r1_python_install
mv "${D}"/usr/bin/easy_install "${D}"/usr/bin/easy_install_py2 || die
}