Graphite In A virtualenv In A Jail

I am attempting to put Graphite in a virtualenv in a FreeBSD 8.2 jail. It is not that straight-forward. However, I have things working!

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Python Update Breaks virtualenv

Just a quick note that upgrading Python to version 2.7.3 will break current virtualenv's. There is a nice blurb on virtualenv.org.

The solution seems trivial enough: remove bin/python and rerun the virtualenv command. This process will also overwrite bin/activate, so be careful if you have made changes to this file.

$ cd /some/virtualenv/project
$ rm bin/python
$ cd ..
$ virtualenv project