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[Jason Dixon <question401544@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Question #401544 on Graphite changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/graphite/+question/401544

    Status: Open => Answered

Jason Dixon proposed the following answer:
See https://github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web/issues/1508.

Jason Dixon
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> On Sep 20, 2016, at 5:22 PM, Andrew Meyer <question401544@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> New question #401544 on Graphite:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/graphite/+question/401544
> 
> While attempting to automate installation of a Graphite server with Puppet, I noticed the following behavior:
> 
> When I install Carbon and Graphite Web from the default pip package repository, PyPI, the packages are installed by default to `/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/`. For example:
> 
>    pip install carbon==0.9.15
>    pip install graphite-web==0.9.15
> 
> results in packages installed to the following directories (on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS):
> 
>    /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/carbon-0.9.15.dist-info/
>    /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/graphite_web-0.9.15.dist-info/
> 
> However, when I instead install the _exact_ same versions of Carbon and Graphite Web from GitHub:
> 
>    pip install https://github.com/graphite-project/carbon/tarball/0.9.15
>    pip install https://github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web/tarball/0.9.15
> 
> The packages end up in `/opt/graphite`:
> 
>   /opt/graphite/webapp/graphite_web-0.9.15-py2.7.egg-info/
>    /opt/graphite/lib/carbon-0.9.15-py2.7.egg-info/
> 
> Why is this? Why does it matter where I'm getting the package from given that I'm installing the exact same version of each package (0.9.15) each time? Is there a way to get the `/opt` style installation behavior using the regular PyPI packages?
> 
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