At 02:49 PM 2/8/2006 +0100, Giovanni Bajo wrote:
Hello,
is there an easy_install option to decompress existing .egg files? I could probably run "easy_install -Z name" but that could potentially download and install another version.
No, it couldn't. A download would only occur if you use --find-links (prior to the current SVN version) or --upgrade, or if 'name' can't be found locally.
I'd need an option which pretty much this semantic: "if extension `name` exists and its current version is packaged as egg file, decompress it into a directory". Does it exist already?
Use --install-dir (-d) and --always-copy (-a) with -Z; this will always result in an unpacked egg in the install directory, whether the source was packed or not: easy_install -Zad tgtdir name If you don't want dependencies, you should also use --no-deps (-N): easy_install -ZaNd tgtdir name In either case, this will install the egg(s) for 'name' into 'tgtdir', and will copy/unpack them there even if they're already on sys.path. No online search will be done unless you have 'find_links' and/or 'upgrade' set in one of your distutils config files (setup.cfg, ~/.pydistutils.cfg, etc.). And you could prevent it even then using --allow-hosts (-H) to disable any remote access.