Why am I unable to using rsync to install modules and appear to have to use pip install instead?

[Robert Nicholson]

Just reinstalling cryptography with pip install seems to have fixed my issue.

Any pointers on why?

> On Feb 10, 2021, at 3:21 PM, Robert Nicholson <robert.nicholson at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I’m using Python 3.7.0
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> so I have multiple environments all on the same architecture with the same python release using anonconda.
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> What I discovered was that if I install the cryptography module in my dev / uat and then tried to synchronize to production server using rsync I ended up with errors relating to dependencies of the cryptography module. 
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> Specifically 
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> Cannot import name ‘_get_backend’
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> these errors appear to have gone away if I actually use pip install cryptography==3.2.1  instead of using rsync from an existing install machine.
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> why is this the case?
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