On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 7:36 PM, Jim Fulton <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 7:11 PM, Philippe Ombredanne > <[email protected]> wrote: > ... >> IMHO it is not possible today to bootstrap and buildout offline. Anyone with >> a better story there? > > To peal this a bit further. > - It's not possible to bootstrap buildout with the regular bootstrap script > without doing network access. > > You could certainly arrange a custom bootstrap script that installed > from a local cache, but you can't use offline mode, which is really > no-install mode. > > You could conceivably arrange to bootstrap in offline mode if you > pre-populated your eggs directory with buildout and setuptools/distribute > eggs, but this is splitting hairs. Actually it is perfectly possible to boostrap in a mode where no network connection is available whcih is my naive assumption for the "offline" option More details to come in another reply in the same thread
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