[Distutils] [zc.buildout] find-links does not deal with two-level hierarchy

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 02:26 PM 3/7/2008 +0100, Andreas Jung wrote:
>Hi,
>
>we have a local fileserver with a two-level hierarchy for egg -something like:
>
>haufe.eggserver
>  +--- haufe.eggserver-0.1.0.egg
>  +---
>haufe.recipe.svnsetup
>  +--- ....
>
>easy_install -i http://our-server/egg haufe.recipe.svnsetup
>works fine with this two-level hierarchy.
>
>Using the URL within the find-links option of my buildout.cfg
>does not work  (Error: Could not find a distribution...) for a part
>with recipe=haufe.recipe.svnsetup.
>
>Bug or feature?

By design -- easy_install doesn't want to be a general-purpose web spider.

If you want your index to work with find-links, you'll need to either 
dump it all in one level (and use -f instead of -i), or else put 
2nd-level links in your find-links.