[Distutils] [buildout] private eggs and egg repositories

[Jim Fulton]

On Nov 15, 2008, at 8:28 AM, Chris Withers wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I'm getting a growing number of customer-specific and non-open- 
> source eggs. I used to just put these in as svn:externals and then  
> add the path in as a develop egg, however, I'm not sure this is  
> going to scale.
>
> What I'd like to do is have a "local egg repository" that I can put  
> these eggs in and then just point buildout at it.
>
> Has anyone done this before?

Yes

> 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.

A repository doesn't have to be a formal index.

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.

Jim

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Jim Fulton
Zope Corporation