[Distutils] PyPI download issues from Rackspace Cloud

[holger krekel]

On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 08:48 +0200, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 08:59:35AM -0500, Donald Stufft wrote:
> > Can you try with 1.5rc1?
> 
> This was trickier than I thought, because pip appears to be incapable of
> upgrading itself on Windows:
> 
>   $ git clone https://github.com/pypa/pip
>   $ virtualenv env
>   $ env/scripts/pip install -U ./pip
>   WindowsError: [Error 5] Access is denied: 'c:\\users\\mg\\...\\scripts\\pip.exe'
> 
> but the advice in https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/1299 helped:
> 
>   $ env/scripts/python -m pip -U ./pip
> 
> > We switched to requests in that version and perhaps it side steps the issue?
> 
> Looks like.  10 out of 10 successful downloads with pip git master using:
> 
>   $ unset PIP_DOWNLOAD_CACHE
>   $ rm -f virtualenv-1.10.1.tar.gz && env/scripts/pip install -d .  virtualenv
> 
> As a control, I tested again with pip 1.4.1, and 2 out of 4 downloads
> failed with a bad hash error.
>
> Interesting.

Thanks for the notes, Marius.  I also got md5 checksumming issues with 
pip-1.4.1 on a windows machine in the rackspace cloud.  Alas, i cannot 
easily force a different pip version because pip is installed from
an automation script which comes from somewhere else :(

best,
holger