[Distutils] Utility to mirror an egg index from a Debian distribution

[Brian Sutherland]

On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 07:13:43AM -0400, David Lyon wrote:
> 
> Hi Brian,
> 

Hi David,

> It sounds interesting. I might be interested in helping.

Great :)

> What I would like to do is make a test script to download all the 
> packages off pypi and build them under multiple platforms.
> 
> Basically, I want to make some tests that will try to install
> "everything" and then deinstall "everything" and see what happens.
> 
> I'm not sure if this has ever been done.. but it might provide
> some interesting test results..

It think that could give some good information, especially about
dependency issues, and perhaps file conflicts.

> Maybe it's similar...

Unfortunately I don't think it's similar enough to fold these 2 projects
into one. I'm basically trying to re-make pypi (or a list of links to
pypi) from a Debian repository. I.e something that looks like this:

    http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/

Also, while I will probably be downloading most of the tarballs, I
definitely won't be installing anything.

> 
> 
> On Fri, 15 May 2009 13:00:41 +0200, Brian Sutherland
> <brian at vanguardistas.net> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > It may seem like a backwards way of doing things, but I have a need for
> > a utility that can maintain a python package index mirror of a Debian
> > repository.
> > 
> > The basic idea is to extract the tarballs of Python packages from the
> > Debian repository and rename them to the original setuptools name. It
> > should also create a buildout-compatible versions file of the versions
> > in the repository.
> > 
> > My current implementation idea is to unpack the tarball and use the
> > egg-metadata to figure out what the "egg" name of the tarball should be.
> > 
> > Does such a tool exists? If not, I'll probably start working on one on
> > svn.zope.org Real Soon Now (TM). Comments, suggestions much
> > appreciated!
> 

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Brian Sutherland