[IMPALA-4570] Impala shell tarball is not usable on systems with setuptools versions where '0.7' is a substring of the full version string

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Impala 2.3.0, Impala 2.5.0, Impala 2.4.0, Impala 2.6.0, Impala 2.7.0, Impala 2.8.0
• Fix Version/s: Impala 2.8.0
• Component/s: Clients
• Target Version: Impala 2.8.0
• Assignee: Tim Armstrong
• Reporter: Tim Armstrong
• Created: 02/Dec/16 00:43
• Updated: 27/Jan/17 18:16
• Resolved: 11/Jan/17 19:42

Description

We saw this error:

ValueError: A 0.7-series setuptools cannot be installed with distribute. Found one at /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages

On a system with setuptools version 20.7.0:

$ find / -name 'setuptools*' 2>/dev/null
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools-20.7.0.egg-info
/usr/lib/cmf/agent/build/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/utils/setuptools_build.py
/usr/lib/cmf/agent/build/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools
/usr/lib/cmf/agent/build/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools-29.0.1.dist-info
/usr/lib/cmf/agent/build/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools.pth
/usr/lib/cmf/agent/build/env/share/python-wheels/setuptools-20.7.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
/usr/lib/hue/tools/virtual-bootstrap/virtualenv_support/setuptools-12.0.5-py2.py3-none-any.whl
/usr/lib/hue/build/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools
/usr/lib/hue/build/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools-12.0.5.dist-info
/usr/share/doc/python-setuptools/setuptools.txt.gz

It looks like this is a bug in pkg_resources.py that others have encountered, which we obtained from setuptools.