[Distutils] Buildout can't talk to PyPI any more?

[Donald Stufft]

On May 29, 2013, at 5:18 AM, Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt> wrote:

> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 11:03:39AM +0200, Lennart Regebro wrote:
>> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt> wrote:
>>> Could it be that recent PyPI CDN changes broke zc.buildout somehow?
>>> Witness this:
>>> 
>>>  $ wget http://downloads.buildout.org/2/bootstrap.py
>>> 
>>>  $ cat buildout.cfg
>>>  [buildout]
>>>  parts = zodbbrowser
>>>  [zodbbrowser]
>>>  recipe = zc.recipe.egg
>>> 
>>>  $ python bootstrap.py
>>> 
>>>  $ bin/buildout
>>>  Error: Couldn't find a distribution for 'zodbbrowser'.
>> 
>> Works for me.
> 
> Works for me too, now.
> 
> 
> Interesting detail: when buildout was failing, and I tried
> 
>  curl http://pypi.python.org/simple/zodbbrowser/
> 
> all I got was a bunch of binary garbage.  To be fair, curl -I showed
> Content-encoding: gzip, and piping curl to zcat showed the HTML just
> fine.  But the interesting thing is that when I try this now, I get raw
> HTML.
> 
> Can it be that buildout doesn't handle Content-Encoding: gzip?
> 
> I was also looking at raw HTTP requests with ngrep, and saw that
> buildout issued something like
> 
>  GET /simple/zodbbrowser HTTP/forgotwhichversionsadly
>  Host: ...
>  Accept-Encoding: identity
>  User-Agent: blah blah distribute 0.6.44 blah blah Python/urllib
> 
> That "Accept-Encoding" header kind of hints that distribute can't handle
> gzipped index pages.  So maybe Varnish or nginx or something on the CDN
> side was misconfigured and ignored the Accept-Encoding?  But why would
> pip/easy_install work then -- they use distribute too!?  (Or was I
> accidentally using a virtualenv that had setuptools instead of
> distribute?  Python packaging aargh.)
> 
> 
> Another possibly interesting detail: I made a release of zodbbrowser
> 0.11.0 this morning.  Buildout was unable to get it right after that,
> and this condition lasted for several hours (from 07:40 UTC until some
> point between 08:20 and 09:00 UTC).
> 
> The Zope Windows buildbot had a couple of similar intermittent errors
> (buildout was unable to find a distribution of some package) that went
> away when the build job was retried after 24 hours.  Could it be that
> something about the PyPI CDN causes new package releases to be gzipped
> for an hour or so, and then revert to plain HTML?
> 
> I'm tempted to do a test, something like
> 
>  curl -I http://pypi.python.org/simple/somepackage/
>  cd ~/src/somepackage && fullrelease # zest.releaser FTW
>  curl -I http://pypi.python.org/simple/somepackage/
> 
> if I can find some package ready for a new release.
> 
> Marius Gedminas
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The cache timeout is an hour unless modifications are made to the package which triggers a cache invalidation.

I bet there is a missing Vary for the encoding. I'll check and get back to you.

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