Tarek Ziadé wrote:
On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 1:38 AM, Eric Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I understand that --index-url is single valued, and --find-links is
multi-valued. But what's the semantic difference between them? From my
reading, it sounds like they both point to pages that contain links to eggs
(or other distributions).
The index url contains an index page of packages, like
http://pypi.python.org/simple/
as defined here
http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall#package-index-api
When setuptools or easy_install are used, they load the index and look
for packages
using the INDEX/PACKAGE_NAME/ base for the url.
find-links will let you add extra links for setuptools to look at, so
basically you
can add any place that contains a flat list of distributions.
Notice that there's a patch that has been proposed so setuptools can handle
several indexes.
What I'm really trying to do is set up my own server, with my own collection
of eggs. I want to configure easy_install (via a config file or command
line) to only look at my collection of eggs, and never the Cheeseshop or
anywhere else. Do I do this with just --index-url? Or with --find-links, and
if so, how do I disable the index?
You could build your own index, using static html files, or use one
of the pypi compatible server applications out there, like EggBasket
or PloneSoftwareCenter.
to make sure you don't use anything else than your server (even if some packages
are trying to access other places with dependency links) you can use
the --allow-hosts
option to give a white list of urls patterns.
Awesome. Thanks for the help.
Eric.
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