Re: [PATCH 0/2] Add nmap

[Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 09:07:03AM +0100, Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer wrote:
> Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 08:50:52AM +0100, Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer wrote:
> >> Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:
> >> 
> >> > This package provides nmap [0].
> >> 
> >> Ah, thanks for doing this!  I've had an nmap branch for ages that I
> >> couldn't get to work because I couldn't get the Python module loading to
> >> work right.
> >
> > I've had this branch for a while too. I don't remember any issues with
> > Python — does everything work for you with this package?
> 
> My issues were with zenmap and I think ndiff.

Turns out this package some problems here too, at least with ndiff (I
punted on zenmap for now). Here's what happens when I try to use ndiff:
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$ ndiff -v scanme-1.xml scanme-2.xml
Could not import the ndiff module: 'No module named ndiff'.
I checked in these directories:
    /gnu/store/rg21w23czkv880haxsx5yps2a8672d6f-nmap-7.01/bin
    /gnu/store/qpzhyhjkj81qshbq2al9sjx4wxamq0zs-python-2.7.10/lib/python27.zip
    /gnu/store/qpzhyhjkj81qshbq2al9sjx4wxamq0zs-python-2.7.10/lib/python2.7
    /gnu/store/qpzhyhjkj81qshbq2al9sjx4wxamq0zs-python-2.7.10/lib/python2.7/plat-linux2
    /gnu/store/qpzhyhjkj81qshbq2al9sjx4wxamq0zs-python-2.7.10/lib/python2.7/lib-tk
    /gnu/store/qpzhyhjkj81qshbq2al9sjx4wxamq0zs-python-2.7.10/lib/python2.7/lib-old
    /gnu/store/qpzhyhjkj81qshbq2al9sjx4wxamq0zs-python-2.7.10/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload
    /home/leo/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages
    /gnu/store/qpzhyhjkj81qshbq2al9sjx4wxamq0zs-python-2.7.10/lib/python2.7/site-packages
If you installed Ndiff in another directory, you may have to add the
modules directory to the PYTHONPATH environment variable.
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I think I need to set the PYTHONPATH to point to the libraries in nmap's
store directory. I think it would be easily accomplished if I could apply
some phases of the python-build-system. Is that possible? 

Or maybe it would be enough to just make a wrapper that points to
/gnu/store/...-nmap/lib/python2.7 or something like that.

I wonder if the PYTHONPATH needs anything else?  I bet if I solved this
it would be easy to also build zenmap.