coverage and setuptools

Im running python 2.4 (CentOS 5.x build) with setuptools 0.6c9

when im trying to install coverage with:

{{{

!sh

easy_install coverage }}}

i got:

{{{ Searching for coverage Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/coverage/ Reading http://nedbatchelder.com/code/modules/coverage.html Reading http://nedbatchelder.com/code/coverage Best match: coverage 3.0 Downloading http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/c/coverage/coverage-3.0.tar.gz#md5=aba99cde68916bd3c8c41c8bb874f68b Processing coverage-3.0.tar.gz error: Not a recognized archive type: /tmp/easy_install-7C2dtz/coverage-3.0.tar.gz }}}

i also got an error when im trying to install coverage with a setup.py

{{{

!python

setup( ... tests_require = ['coverage==2.85'], ) }}}

{{{

!sh

./setup.py test }}}

{{{ ... Searching for coverage==2.85 Reading http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/coverage/ Reading http://nedbatchelder.com/code/coverage Reading http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/coverage/3.0 No local packages or download links found for coverage==2.85 error: Could not find suitable distribution for Requirement.parse('coverage==2.85') }}}

Issue #20 was marked as a duplicate of this issue.

The problem is the gid of the files contained in the tarball contain some kind of non-ascii characters which Python 2.4 tarfile's can't handle but >= 2.5 can. Ned needs to rebuild and upload the tarball without this funky gid, and maybe the eggs too for good measure

$ tar -tzvf coverage-3.0.1.tar.gz 
drwx------ batcheln/???????? 0 2009-07-06 19:26:21 coverage-3.0.1/
-rwx------ batcheln/???????? 8397 2009-07-06 17:48:49 coverage-3.0.1/CHANGES.txt
drwx------ batcheln/????????    0 2009-07-06 19:26:21 coverage-3.0.1/coverage/
<etc>

I've made a new tar.gz file with groupid 100. It's on pypi, let me know if it works for you.

Fixed in 075df78f682f

Issue #126 was marked as a duplicate of this issue.