[Distutils] [buildout] private eggs and egg repositories

[Chris Withers]

Jim Fulton wrote:
> 
>> Has anyone done this before?
> 
> Yes

I had a feeling that might be the case ;-)

>> Failing that, is there any way in buildout to say "use this egg 
>> repository in favour of pypi, and only look at pypi if the egg isn't 
>> found in the local repository"?
> 
> Just set up a flat directory somewhere and tell buildout (or any other 
> setuptools-based software, like easy_install) to add it to its list of 
> find links.

Does find-links take preference over the repository? I thought *all* 
find-links *and* the repository were checked and the best match used?

> We simply set up an sftp server and point buildout at it using the 
> buildoutsftp buildout extension and sftp urls, as in:
> 
>   extensions = zc.buildoutsftp
>   find-links = sftp://private.zope.com/private
> 
> This provides restricted access with authentication using ssh keys.

Cool. Out of interest, what ftp server do you use for this and how do 
you build/upload the eggs to sftp://private.zope.com/private?

cheers,

Chris

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