How to turn a package into something pip can install

[Roy Smith]

In article <mailman.6998.1392473352.18130.python-list at python.org>,
 Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick <kwpolska at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 3:26 AM, Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> wrote:
> > In article <mailman.6949.1392429645.18130.python-list at python.org>,
> >  Ryan Gonzalez <rymg19 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> python setup.py sdist
> >
> > OK, I run that and I get a metar-1.4.0.tar.gz under dist.  If I move
> > that tarfile to my packages directory, and run pip, I get:
> >
> > $ pip install --no-index --quiet --find-links packages metar==1.4.0
> [snip]
> > ValueError: unknown url type: packages
> 
> The path to your cache directory is incorrect.  I suggest using
> absolute paths (eg. /home/user/packages) instead of relative paths,
> which is likely what caused this issue.

No, that's not it.  It doesn't work with an absolute path either.

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$ pip install -v --no-index --find-links /home/roy/deploy/current/code/deploy/python/packages metar==1.4.0
Ignoring indexes: http://pypi.python.org/simple/
Downloading/unpacking metar==1.4.0
Exception in thread Thread-1:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 551, in __bootstrap_inner
    self.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 504, in run
    self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs)
  File "/home/roy/deploy/current/python/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-1.1-py2.7.egg/pip/index.py", line 245, in _get_queued_page
    page = self._get_page(location, req)
  File "/home/roy/deploy/current/python/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-1.1-py2.7.egg/pip/index.py", line 335, in _get_page
    return HTMLPage.get_page(link, req, cache=self.cache)
  File "/home/roy/deploy/current/python/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-1.1-py2.7.egg/pip/index.py", line 452, in get_page
    resp = urlopen(url)
  File "/home/roy/deploy/current/python/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-1.1-py2.7.egg/pip/download.py", line 85, in __call__
    response = urllib2.urlopen(self.get_request(url))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 126, in urlopen
    return _opener.open(url, data, timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 392, in open
    protocol = req.get_type()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 254, in get_type
    raise ValueError, "unknown url type: %s" % self.__original
ValueError: unknown url type: /home/roy/deploy/current/code/deploy/python/packages

  Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement metar==1.4.0
No distributions at all found for metar==1.4.0
Exception information:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/roy/deploy/current/python/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-1.1-py2.7.egg/pip/basecommand.py", line 104, in main
    status = self.run(options, args)
  File "/home/roy/deploy/current/python/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-1.1-py2.7.egg/pip/commands/install.py", line 245, in run
    requirement_set.prepare_files(finder, force_root_egg_info=self.bundle, bundle=self.bundle)
  File "/home/roy/deploy/current/python/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-1.1-py2.7.egg/pip/req.py", line 978, in prepare_files
    url = finder.find_requirement(req_to_install, upgrade=self.upgrade)
  File "/home/roy/deploy/current/python/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-1.1-py2.7.egg/pip/index.py", line 157, in find_requirement
    raise DistributionNotFound('No distributions at all found for %s' % req)
DistributionNotFound: No distributions at all found for metar==1.4.0

Storing complete log in /home/roy/.pip/pip.log
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The tar file is there:

$ ls -l /home/roy/deploy/current/code/deploy/python/packages/metar-1.4.0.tar.gz 
-rw-rw-r-- 1 roy roy 28542 Feb 15 16:55 /home/roy/deploy/current/code/deploy/python/packages/metar-1.4.0.tar.gz