[Distutils] PyPI download issues from Rackspace Cloud

[Marius Gedminas]

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.

Marius Gedminas
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