[Distutils] nailed-down versions by having custom index

[Reinout van Rees]

On 02/03/2010 12:31 AM, P.J. Eby wrote:

>> Question 2: I thought you could only have one index. So installing
>> something extra from pypi seems out.
>
> You can always add a mod_rewrite rule in your index root, that checks
> for the nonexistence of a projectname, and then automatically redirects
> to the PyPI index for that page. easy_install will not be confused by
> this - it will treat the PyPI page as if it had been served by your
> index. (But of course it will correctly interpret any relative links
> found as relative to the PyPI page, rather than as relative to the URL
> it tried to fetch from your index. If you don't understand any of this,
> don't worry... it Just Works.)

Hey, great idea.

For another employer I did something similar which looked up the 
"missing" package in a local pypi cache/proxy thingy.  Redirecting... Hm :-)

I *think* I'll use this redirect trick in combination with a local 
sdistmaker-made simple index [1].  Then I'll just use my customary 
buildout techniques to get repeatable builds.

For the arcgis-wants-it-in-sitepackages-on-windows problem I'll have to 
fix up something else. I suspect a custom index (with Tres' compoze to 
manage it) fits that bill just fine.  Ok, I'm off setting stuff up.


Reinout

[1]: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/tha.sdistmaker

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