On Mon Dec 17 15:35:47 CET 2012, Anton Koval' psihonavt at gmail.com wrote: > in our project we've decided to completely move > buildout process to offline mode. > according to documentation > (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zc.buildout/2.0.0a5) > I made updates in our main buildout configuration file, like: > download-cache = ... > install-from-cache = true > offline = true > But when buildout tries to install any part with recipe specified, > it is (obviously) failing, e.g.: > Error: Couldn't find a distribution for 'iw.recipe.cmd'. > So, my question is: are there ways to fetch recipes also from > some cache (or whatever) on local disk?
I have experienced the same issue See https://github.com/buildout/buildout/issues/41 This is a bug and also per Jim Fulton a lack of specification/documentation of what offline really means. IMHO it is not possible today to bootstrap and buildout offline. Anyone with a better story there? That said the fixes are rather easy ... And I have an ugly but nicely working monkey patching extension that I will publish on pypi in a couple days... Which ironically enough needs to be installed with pip before a boostrap. Now Jim suggested I should bring the discussion here. In general installing packages without a network connection should be straight forward, simple and easy. That would be the common understanding of what offline means. It works fine with setuptools/distribute and pip albeit a tad circumvoluted and under documented. It does not with buildout and fails because with the offline flag/config, buildout calls its install function with a None dest argument making setuptools/distribute fail downstream with a weird exception as you reported. This affects all current and recent versions of buildout. -- Philippe Ombredanne nexB
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