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z3c.pypimirror

Implementing and providing an infrastructure for PyPI mirrors

in order to provide a high-available platform

for Python projects depending on PyPI.

PyPI is the central Python package index.

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Usage

Buildout

[buildout]
# your settings...
index = http://your.mirror/   # look right for possible URLs
# your settings...

Catching errors:

• If your buildout tells you something like
  

    Getting distribution for 'python-openid>=2.2.1,<2.3dev'.
  Error: Couldn't find a distribution for 'python-openid>=2.2.1,<2.3dev'.

  your buildout requested a package which either is not on pypi or which is only linked from pypi. The mirrors don't catch those packages for several reasons. But you can workaround by adding those download URLs to the find-links section of [buildout]:
  

  find-links =
      http://openidenabled.com/files/python-openid/packages
      # possibly other links...
  

  To find out those links, just visit http://pypi.python.org/  and search for the required package - in this case "python-openid". If you're lucky, there's a download- or homepage-URL shown. Just cut off the filename so you get a page from where the releases are only linked and provide this URL to find-links like above. If you're crazy enough you may also use pypi's url ;)
  For Plone, currently only the python-openid package (like above) is required [TODO: I tested this with 3.1.6. Is this really true for all 3.* versions?].

easy_install

# easy_install -i http://your.mirror/ some.package

Catching errors:

• If easy_install tells you something like
  

  Searching for BeautifulSoup
  Reading http://your.mirror/BeautifulSoup/
  No local packages or download links found for BeautifulSoup
  error: Could not find suitable distribution for Requirement.parse('BeautifulSoup')
  

then you've hit a package which only provides  a link on pypi (or even nothing). We do not mirror those. Sorry. But you may add a find-links option to easy_install like this (to find out those links, just visit http://pypi.python.org/  and search for the required package - in this case "python-openid". If you're lucky, there's a download- or homepage-URL shown. Just cut off the filename so you get a page from where the releases are only linked and provide this URL to find-links like above. If you're crazy enough you may also use pypi's url ;)):

# easy_install -i http://your.mirror/ -f http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/download/ some.package

Project Leaders

• Daniel Kraft <dk-pypi [AT] d9t.de>
  
• Andreas Jung <info@zopyx.com>