From c7505fea31620ff561962f75ee8d19d3202e4318 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: sonicaj <waqarahmedjoyia@live.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:33:24 +0500
Subject: [PATCH] Exclude build artifact directories from setuptools package
 discovery (#977)

This commit fixes an issue where `pip install .` would stall indefinitely due to setuptools recursively scanning large build artifact directories (tmp, sources, logs, etc.) during package discovery.
---
 pyproject.toml | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 2899897..3254068 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ scale_build = "scale_build.main:main"
 [tool.setuptools.packages.find]
 where = ["."]
 include = ["scale_build*", "truenas_install*"]
+exclude = ["tmp*", "sources*", "logs*", "build*", "dist*"]
 
 [tool.setuptools]
 include-package-data = true