[Distutils] [buildout/easyinstall] downloading from a url

Chris Withers chris at simplistix.co.uk
Tue Jun 1 14:05:38 CEST 2010


Hi All,

We have a collection of private eggs served from a simple folder served 
up by Apache.

The following works fine to get these eggs via buildout:

[buildout]
find-links = http://username:password@server/eggs-index/

However, the following does not find the eggs:

bin/easy_install 
--find-links=http://username:password@server/eggs-index/ eggname

However, if I mount up the folder served by apache and do:

bin/easy_install --find-links=/mnt/path/to/eggs-index/ eggname

...it works fine.

bin/easy_install 
--find-links=http://username:password@server/eggs-index/eggname-version.tar.gz 


...bombs out complaining that authorization is required.

So, how come the behaviour of all of these is different?

cheers,

Chris



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