[Grok-dev] Grok Based Source Distributions

[Baiju M]

On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Tim Cook<timothywayne.cook at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a Grok based project that I want to be able to distribute
> platform specific source installation packages.
>
> My testing is being done on Linux x86_64 with Grok 1.0a4.
>
>
> I tried including the eggs in an eggs directory and that seemed to work
> except; oops....none of the C modules built.
>
> So I after much buildout documentation browsing I tried the -o (offline)
> option and bootstrap.py (or one of the recipes) complained it couldn't
> run in offline mode.
>
> So, I discovered the Using a download cache section of the docs and I
> modified my buildout so that all the eggs sources were in a directory
> (cache) and I added these lines to buildout.cfg
>
> download-cache = cache
> install-from-cache = true
>
> and still had
>
> eggs-directory = eggs
>
> But when executing bootstrap.py or bin/buildout (with or w/o the -o
> option) right away I get
> Error: Couldn't find a distribution for 'z3c.recipe.eggbasket==0.4.1'
>
> So....how do you setup a Grok based project so that no Internet access
> is required?

May be you are looking for zc.sourcerelease:

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zc.sourcerelease

Create another another buildout configuration to install zc.sourcerelease
or simply use "easy_install zc.sourcerelease"

To create a tarball for off-line installation:

  ./bin/buildout-source-release SVN_URL
buildout_conf_to_be_used_finally.cfg -n package_tarball_name

Regards,
Baiju M