[Distutils] custom package index issue

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Tres Seaver <tseaver at palladion.com> wrote:
>> You'll need to either ensure that your index provides binaries, or
>> use --allow-hosts to restrict what hosts easy_install will look for files on.
>
> While I'm at it ;):  I'd like a global config knob to disable use of
> package-supplied 'dependency_links' (as opposed to those supplied on the
> command line).  I guess the '--allow-hosts' option is probably a decent
> workaround for that one:  can it be set in 'setup.cfg', perchance?

If you use zc.buildout, I've added an allow-hosts option for that matter:

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zc.buildout#allow-hosts