[Distutils] environment replication

[Robin Becker]

On 04/05/2017 12:40, Wes Turner wrote:
> On Thursday, May 4, 2017, Robin Becker <robin at reportlab.com> wrote:
>
>> I have a bunch of virtual environments which need replicating from one
>> machine to another. In the past rsync was OK, but now with slightly
>> different environments I have been using pip freeze to get a list of the
>> installed requirements and pip install to carry out changes to the remote
>> environment.
>>
>> Is there a way to resolve issues where pip reports a different package to
>> the one installed eg
>>
>>
> After you've installed as editable with `pip install - git+
> https://GitHub.com/project/team`, pip freeze is not displaying the source
> url?
>
> Or did you manually git clone and then `python setup.py install` or `pip
> install -e`?
>
>

Unfortunately I didn't do the original install; developers hacking on live 
servers :(, but the requirements.txt file shows just

git+http://github.com/django-cumulus/django-cumulus.git@master#egg=django-cumulus

so I must assume that was how the installation took place. I don't think the 
intent is to edit anything so the developers don't care.

As a test I did the install as above and then I see pip freeze respond with

django-cumulus===1.0.19-22-g506121d


If I try the method you suggest with -e flag then I do get something more

-e 
git+http://github.com/django-cumulus/django-cumulus.git@506121d8669e1cce8843d9f76f2767324f8b1e78#egg=django_cumulus

that is certainly more usable, but is not ideal as the hacker/developers will 
tend to hack the installation :(

thanks
>
>>
>> the original requirements say
>>
........

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Robin Becker