On Mar 7, 2008, at 12:58 PM, Tres Seaver wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Phillip J. Eby wrote: >> At 02:26 PM 3/7/2008 +0100, Andreas Jung wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> we have a local fileserver with a two-level hierarchy for egg - >>> something like: >>> >>> haufe.eggserver >>> +--- haufe.eggserver-0.1.0.egg >>> +--- >>> haufe.recipe.svnsetup >>> +--- .... >>> >>> easy_install -i http://our-server/egg haufe.recipe.svnsetup >>> works fine with this two-level hierarchy. >>> >>> Using the URL within the find-links option of my buildout.cfg >>> does not work (Error: Could not find a distribution...) for a part >>> with recipe=haufe.recipe.svnsetup. >>> >>> Bug or feature? >> >> By design -- easy_install doesn't want to be a general-purpose web >> spider. >> >> If you want your index to work with find-links, you'll need to either >> dump it all in one level (and use -f instead of -i), or else put >> 2nd-level links in your find-links. > > When you use 'easy_install -i URL', you are using an *index*, which is > different than using *find links* (the '-f' options). If zc.buildout > were able to express "use this package index, but only for this target > egg", then that would be the equivalent spelling.
zc.buildout does let you specify an index for an individual part/egg. I fail to see how that is an equivalent spelling. Jim -- Jim Fulton Zope Corporation _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
