a stable version for the easyinstall issue, but it could be automated more

meta/classes/distutils.bbclass

@@ -72,16 +72,6 @@ distutils_do_install() {
         fi
 }
 
-pkg_postinst_${PN} () {
-	if test ! -e ${PYTHON_SITEPACKAGES_DIR}/easy-install.pth; then
-            cat > ${PYTHON_SITEPACKAGES_DIR}/easy-install.pth << EOF
-import sys; sys.__plen = len(sys.path)
-import sys; new=sys.path[sys.__plen:]; del sys.path[sys.__plen:]; p=getattr(sys,'__egginsert',0); sys.path[p:p]=new; sys.__egginsert = p+len(new)
-EOF
-        fi
-        sed -i '$ i ${EASYINSTALL_${PN}}' ${PYTHON_SITEPACKAGES_DIR}/easy-install.pth
-}
-
 EXPORT_FUNCTIONS do_compile do_install
 
 export LDSHARED="${CCLD} -shared"

meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-rospkg_1.0.15.bb

@@ -12,12 +12,6 @@ S = "${WORKDIR}/${SRCNAME}-${PV}"
 
 inherit distutils
 
-# Must inherit package first before changing PACKAGEFUNCS
+EASYINSTALL_python-rospkg = "./rospkg-1.0.15-py2.7.egg"
-inherit package
-PACKAGEFUNCS += "add_easyinstall_pth"
 
-add_easyinstall_pth () {
+inherit easyinstall
-	echo "rospkg add_easyinstall_pth..."
-}
-
-EASYINSTALL_python-rospkg = "rospkg-1.0.15-py2.7.egg"

meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-setuptools_0.6c11.bb

@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+DESCRIPTION = "Download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages"
+HOMEPAGE = "http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/setuptools"
+SECTION = "devel/python"
+LICENSE = "PSF"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://setup.py;beginline=23;endline=23;md5=8a314270dd7a8dbca741775415f1716e"
+
+SRCNAME = "setuptools"
+PR = "ml5"
+DEPENDS += "python"
+DEPENDS_virtclass-native += "python-native"
+
+SRC_URI = "\
+  http://cheeseshop.python.org/packages/source/s/setuptools/${SRCNAME}-${PV}.tar.gz\
+"
+S = "${WORKDIR}/${SRCNAME}-${PV}"
+
+inherit distutils
+
+DISTUTILS_INSTALL_ARGS += "--install-lib=${D}${libdir}/${PYTHON_DIR}/site-packages"
+
+do_install_prepend() {
+    install -d ${D}/${libdir}/${PYTHON_DIR}/site-packages
+}
+
+RDEPENDS_${PN} = "\
+  python-distutils \
+  python-compression \
+"
+
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "7df2a529a074f613b509fb44feefe74e"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "630fea9b726320b73ee3ca6ff61732cb32675b0389be658080fe46383b87a1d3"
+
+EASYINSTALL_${PN} = "./setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg"
+
+inherit easyinstall
+
+BBCLASSEXTEND = "native"