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Bug on Windows: A required privilege is not held by the client #118

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svaningelgem opened this issue Jan 31, 2023 · 0 comments
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Bug on Windows: A required privilege is not held by the client #118

svaningelgem opened this issue Jan 31, 2023 · 0 comments

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Version: 0.8.2
Simply running: pip2pi /pip2pi -r requirements.txt results in this error:

ERROR linking ../../multimethod-1.9.1-py3-none-any.whl to C:\pip2pi\simple\multimethod\multimethod-1.9.1-py3-none-any.whl (skipping): [WinError 1314] A required privilege is not held by the client: '../../multimethod-1.9.1-py3-none-
any.whl' -> 'C:\\pip2pi\\simple\\multimethod\\multimethod-1.9.1-py3-none-any.whl'
ERROR linking ../../python_dateutil-2.8.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl to C:\pip2pi\simple\python-dateutil\python_dateutil-2.8.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl (skipping): [WinError 1314] A required privilege is not held by the client: '../../python_
dateutil-2.8.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl' -> 'C:\\pip2pi\\simple\\python-dateutil\\python_dateutil-2.8.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl'
ERROR linking ../../PyYAML-6.0-cp39-cp39-win_amd64.whl to C:\pip2pi\simple\pyyaml\PyYAML-6.0-cp39-cp39-win_amd64.whl (skipping): [WinError 1314] A required privilege is not held by the client: '../../PyYAML-6.0-cp39-cp39-win_amd64.w
hl' -> 'C:\\pip2pi\\simple\\pyyaml\\PyYAML-6.0-cp39-cp39-win_amd64.whl'
ERROR linking ../../six-1.16.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl to C:\pip2pi\simple\six\six-1.16.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (skipping): [WinError 1314] A required privilege is not held by the client: '../../six-1.16.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl' -> 'C:\\
pip2pi\\simple\\six\\six-1.16.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl'

This is very likely because of the security policy on my laptop that disallows symlinks.

I don't know if it there are any negative consequences to this, but I would fall back to a copy if a symlink fails.

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