[Catalog-sig] How to remove dead links from PyPI?

[Maurits van Rees]

Gerhard Häring, on 2010-02-22:
> Hello,
>
> I cannot figure out how to modify old releases on PyPI. This page:
>
> http://pypi.python.org/simple/pysqlite/
>
> has lots of dead links for older releases of pysqlite (anything
> pointing to pysqlite.org or initd.org).
>
> I'd like to remove these links, so that easy_install and buildout
> won't take forever before giving up.

If you do:
bin/buildout -t 5 
then buildout will give up on a link after 5 seconds.

It is a workaround, but it may be helpful.

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