graphite-web install via pip doesn't show up in "pip freeze"

[bahamat]

This appears to be the same issue as issue 86 of carbon.

Same issue here, when using a configuration management system (e.g., CFEngine, Salt) the system can't properly detect that graphite-web is installed and tries to install it on every run.

[obfuscurity]

This is definitely causing problems with pip in 0.9.13-pre1. We need to fix this for the upcoming release.

[brutasse]

@obfuscurity fixing this is just a matter of removing the /opt/graphite prefix in setup.cfg. But it's a big backwards-incompatible change and messes all paths in graphite's settings. Last time we talked about this, the conclusion was to keep the prefix in 0.9 and make a possibly breaking change in 0.10 to end up with a more common directory layout.

[deniszh]

👍 what @brutasse said - I also see no way how it could be fixed in 0.9.13 w/o breaking many things. Maybe fixing it in 1.0-dev is much better idea?

[obfuscurity]

Yes, I remember that now. I guess at the time I didn't realize the extent of the breakage associated with keeping things the same for 0.9.13. AIUI there's no way to install via PyPI for this release.

... well, not without also installing all the pip dependencies manually first.

[obfuscurity]

The installation docs now formally instruct the user to set PYTHONPATH before installing via pip. Fixed in 1904348.