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

[Tres Seaver]

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Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> 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.

When you use 'easy_install -i URL', you are using an *index*, which is
different than using *find links* (the '-f' options).  If zc.buildout
were able to express "use this package index, but only for this target
egg", then that would be the equivalent spelling.


Tres.
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