[Distutils] [issue67] You can't tell easy_install not to talk to the network

[Jeff Rush]

Glyph Lefkowitz wrote:
> New submission from Glyph Lefkowitz <glyph at twistedmatrix.com>:
> 
> If I want to use easy_install for nice dependency resolution, there's no way
> (that I can figure out, at least) to tell it "never talk to the network, use
> only this local directory where you can find dependencies".
> 
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> messages: 260
> nosy: glyph
> priority: feature
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> title: You can't tell easy_install not to talk to the network

Sure you can.  To tell it to pull ONLY from a local directory, use:

    easy_install -H None -f /tmp/cachedir SQLObject

and to *generate* that directory when you -are- online, use:

    easy_install -zmaxd /tmp/cachedir SQLObject

It's the '--allow-hosts=None' or '-H None' that does the magic.

BTW my slides and handouts from the tutorial I ran at PyCon about distutils, 
setuptools and buildout are linked to at the bottom of the page:

    http://us.pycon.org/2009/tutorials/schedule/1PM3/

It's broken into four sub-topics of virtualenv, distutils, setuptools and 
buildout and the handout text includes many tips and techniques that are not 
often well known like the one you asked about.

-Jeff