The whole workaround as a sort of patch for the current 7.11 release:
--- /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/download.py.orig 2018-01-22
11:02:16.055788573 +0100
+++ /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/download.py 2018-01-22
11:58:11.571880912 +0100
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
'unpack_file_url', 'is_vcs_url', 'is_file_url', 'unpack_http_url']
-xmlrpclib_transport = xmlrpclib.Transport()
+xmlrpclib_transport = xmlrpclib.SafeTransport()
--- /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/commands/search.py.orig 2018-01-22
11:00:45.283786471 +0100
+++ /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/commands/search.py 2018-01-22
11:01:21.015784662 +0100
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
'--index',
dest='index',
metavar='URL',
- default='http://pypi.python.org/pypi',
+ default='https://pypi.python.org/pypi',
help='Base URL of Python Package Index (default %default)')
def run(self, options, args):
--- /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/commands/install.py.orig 2018-01-22
12:06:42.479898296 +0100
+++ /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/commands/install.py 2018-01-22
12:07:43.315900300 +0100
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
'-i', '--index-url', '--pypi-url',
dest='index_url',
metavar='URL',
- default='http://pypi.python.org/simple/',
+ default='https://pypi.python.org/simple/',
help='Base URL of Python Package Index (default %default)')
self.parser.add_option(
'--extra-index-url',
The latter was missing in the previous comment and is required in case of an
install.
Maybe secure transport may also be needed in other places too, but on my system
installing worked after this patch.
As of today the fix of this problem is still required for the 7.X LTS
branch at least.
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