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Hello,

Setuptools has made a new version 48 release. This appears to be causing problems for devstack because `pip install -e $PACKAGE_PATH` installs commands to /usr/bin and not /usr/local/bin on Ubuntu as it did in the past. `pip install $PACKAGE_PATH` continues to install to /usr/local/bin as expected. Devstack is failing because keystone-manage cannot currently be found at the specific /usr/local/bin/ path.

Potential workarounds for this include not using `pip install -e` or relying on $PATH to find the commands rather than specifying rooted paths to them. I'll defer to the QA team on how they want to address this. While we can have devstack install an older setuptools version as well, generally this is not considered to be a good idea because anyone doing pip installs outside of devstack may get the newer behavior. It is actually important for us to try and keep up with setuptools changes as a result.

Fungi indicated that setuptools expected this to be a bumpy upgrade. I'm not sure if they would consider `pip install -e` and `pip install` installing to different paths as a bug, and if they did which behavior is correct. It would probably be a good idea to file a bug upstream if we debug this further.

Clark