[Zope-dev] buildout and broken Cheeseshop download URLs

[Jens Vagelpohl]

On May 28, 2008, at 02:25 , Christian Theune wrote:

> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 02:31:04PM -0400, Jim Fulton wrote:
>> Did you try setting up a download cache and putting it there?  Note  
>> that
>> if you had a download cache named "foo", you would need to put the  
>> tar
>> ball in foo/dist.
>>
>> I could and should add code to buildout to deal with situations like
>> this.  I'm not sure when that will happen. :(
>
> What we do in those cases is to:
>
> - add a directory to our buildout like
>
>    <mybuildout>/3rdparty
>
> - add a find-links option to that in buildout
>
>    [buildout]
>    find-links = 3rdparty/
>
> We then add all (egg) downloads that can't be reached otherwise and  
> also put
> them into version control.

Thanks Christian, this appears to work.

jens