[Distutils] [zc.buildout] find-links does not deal with two-level hierarchy

[Jim Fulton]

On Mar 7, 2008, at 12:58 PM, Tres Seaver wrote:

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> Phillip J. Eby wrote:
>> At 02:26 PM 3/7/2008 +0100, Andreas Jung wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> we have a local fileserver with a two-level hierarchy for egg - 
>>> something like:
>>>
>>> haufe.eggserver
>>> +--- haufe.eggserver-0.1.0.egg
>>> +---
>>> haufe.recipe.svnsetup
>>> +--- ....
>>>
>>> easy_install -i http://our-server/egg haufe.recipe.svnsetup
>>> works fine with this two-level hierarchy.
>>>
>>> Using the URL within the find-links option of my buildout.cfg
>>> does not work  (Error: Could not find a distribution...) for a part
>>> with recipe=haufe.recipe.svnsetup.
>>>
>>> Bug or feature?
>>
>> By design -- easy_install doesn't want to be a general-purpose web  
>> spider.
>>
>> If you want your index to work with find-links, you'll need to either
>> dump it all in one level (and use -f instead of -i), or else put
>> 2nd-level links in your find-links.
>
> When you use 'easy_install -i URL', you are using an *index*, which is
> different than using *find links* (the '-f' options).  If zc.buildout
> were able to express "use this package index, but only for this target
> egg", then that would be the equivalent spelling.


zc.buildout does let you specify an index for an individual part/egg.

I fail to see how that is an equivalent spelling.

Jim

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Jim Fulton
Zope Corporation