[Zope-dev] Re: why external version indexes don't fulfill all use cases for development

Tres Seaver tseaver at palladion.com
Mon Nov 12 17:54:05 EST 2007


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Chris Withers wrote:
> Stephan Richter wrote:
>> The easiest way to do this is to add the following line to the "buildout" 
>> section of the package's `buildout.cfg` file:
>>
>> index = http://download.zope.org/zope3.4
>>
>> (I know you know that Jim; it is for the benefit of people reading this 
>> mail. ;-)
> 
> I've been trying to follow this whole thread but it's been pretty high 
> volume so apologies if I've missed something...
> 
> If I specify index as above, how do I get other packages which may not 
> appear in that index?

You install them in a separate transaction:  the 'index_url' setting in
a pacakge setup.py only governs where setuptools goes to find packages
which are dependencies of that package.


Tres.
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