On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 08:48 +0200, Marius Gedminas wrote: > On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 08:59:35AM -0500, Donald Stufft wrote: > > Can you try with 1.5rc1? > > This was trickier than I thought, because pip appears to be incapable of > upgrading itself on Windows: > > $ git clone https://github.com/pypa/pip > $ virtualenv env > $ env/scripts/pip install -U ./pip > WindowsError: [Error 5] Access is denied: > 'c:\\users\\mg\\...\\scripts\\pip.exe' > > but the advice in https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/1299 helped: > > $ env/scripts/python -m pip -U ./pip > > > We switched to requests in that version and perhaps it side steps the issue? > > Looks like. 10 out of 10 successful downloads with pip git master using: > > $ unset PIP_DOWNLOAD_CACHE > $ rm -f virtualenv-1.10.1.tar.gz && env/scripts/pip install -d . virtualenv > > As a control, I tested again with pip 1.4.1, and 2 out of 4 downloads > failed with a bad hash error. > > Interesting.
Thanks for the notes, Marius. I also got md5 checksumming issues with pip-1.4.1 on a windows machine in the rackspace cloud. Alas, i cannot easily force a different pip version because pip is installed from an automation script which comes from somewhere else :( best, holger _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
