[Distutils] offline mode for Windows buildout -o or -No doesn't work...any alternatives?

[Jim Fulton]

On Mar 10, 2008, at 4:11 PM, Michael NT Milne wrote:

> Been told to try this post from Plone users on this list....
>
> This is infuriating. Each time we install a new egg we have to run
> buildout in online mode as buildout -o or buildout -No just produces
> an invalid command error.

I don't understand what you are saying.  What exactly are you trying  
to do?

> buildout –c c:\Plone\'yoursitename'\buildout.cfg
>
> The above works but it re-installs new eggs etc alongside the old eggs
> and the site breaks as below. When re-running buildout, Zope uses the
> eggs with the higher numbers. Do you need to change anything to make
> this work?

What work? I don't know what your desired outcome is.


> Also has anyone got Windows buildouts running in offline
> mode? It seems the only way to fix this is to delete the new eggs etc
> that have been fetched.

The error below is a Plone error:

> 2008-03-10T16:45:09 ERROR Application Couldn't install Five
> Traceback (most recent call last):
...
> line 22.4-22.39
>   ZopeXMLConfigurationError: File
> "d:\plone3\insite2\eggs\plone.app.contentrules-1.1.0a1-
> py2.4.egg\plone\app\contentrules\exportimport\configure.zcml",
> line 16.4
>   ConfigurationError: ('Unknown directive',
> u'http://namespaces.zope.org/genericsetup', u'importStep')


This looks like plone\app\contentrules\exportimport\configure.zcml" is  
missing a namespace declaration, but this has nothing to do with  
distutils.  I suggest going back to the plone list for help with this  
error. :)

Jim

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Jim Fulton
Zope Corporation