@@ -202,7 +202,19 @@ function fixup_fedora {

             # install requests with the bundled urllib3 to avoid conflicts

             pip_install --upgrade --force-reinstall requests

         fi

+

     fi

+

+    # Since pip10, pip will refuse to uninstall files from packages

+    # that were created with distutils (rather than more modern

+    # setuptools).  This is because it technically doesn't have a

+    # manifest of what to remove.  However, in most cases, simply

+    # overwriting works.  So this hacks around those packages that

+    # have been dragged in by some other system dependency

+    sudo rm -rf /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/enum34*.egg-info

+    sudo rm -rf /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ipaddress*.egg-info

+    sudo rm -rf /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ply-*.egg-info

+    sudo rm -rf /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/typing-*.egg-info

 }

 function fixup_suse {