Finally. Needs to write setup.cfg file to make /usr/local and /usr prefix

consistent.

.travis.yml

 sudo : required
-dist : trusty
-group : edge
 
 compiler:
     - gcc

debian/rules

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ override_dh_auto_clean:
 
 # consider using -DUSE_VERSIONED_DIR=ON if backporting
 override_dh_auto_configure:
-	cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=debian/tmp/usr
+	cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=debian/tmp/usr -DCMAKE_VERSION=3.2.git
 
 override_dh_auto_build:
 	make VERBOSE=0 -j`nproc`

moose-core/CMakeLists.txt

@@ -461,11 +461,12 @@ endif( )
 
 # get platform and arch using python.
 # NOTE: creating bdist or bdist_dump uses /usr and /usr/local on rpm and deb
-# based unix respectively. Not a great situation to be in. We are using
-# bdist_egg and then copy everything from egg/. 
+# based unix respectively. Not a great situation to be in. Need to write a
+# setup.cfg file to fix the prefix in all cases. 
+file(WRITE ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/python/setup.cfg "[install]\nprefix=/usr" )
 find_package( PythonInterp REQUIRED)
 add_custom_target( bdist 
-    COMMAND ${PYTHON_EXECUTABLE} setup.cmake.py bdist_egg -d ${PYMOOSE_BDIST_DIR}
+    COMMAND ${PYTHON_EXECUTABLE} setup.cmake.py bdist_dumb -d ${PYMOOSE_BDIST_DIR}
     WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/python
     COMMENT "Genearating bdist using setup.cmake.py." 
     VERBATIM

moose-core/python/setup.cmake.py

@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ try:
 except Exception as e:
     from distutils.core import setup
 
+
 # Read version from VERSION created by cmake file. This file must be present for
 # setup.cmake.py to work perfectly.
 script_dir = os.path.dirname( os.path.abspath( __file__ ) )