On 2017-11-08 17:32, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
> On Nov 8, 2017, at 08:24, Kurt Hindenburg wrote:
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>> On Jun 25, 2017, at 1:52 AM, Joshua Root wrote:
>>
>>> On 2017-6-25 12:27 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>>> We often have this problem that we forget to specify dependencies in a
>>>> python port. Python (setuptools?) helpfully automatically downloads a
>>>> temporary copy of the dependency to use, so we may not notice this until
>>>> committing the port, at which point if we're looking at the buildbot logs
>>>> we might notice that it fails to build on older OS versions because of SSL
>>>> problems.
>>>> Here's an example:
>>>> https://build.macports.org/builders/ports-10.7_x86_64_legacy-builder/builds/37372
>>>> Is there a way we can tell python in the python portgroup that it should
>>>> not attempt to automatically download dependencies, so that we would
>>>> discover these problems earlier?
>>>
>>> According to the setuptools docs, easy_install at least has a --no-deps
>>> flag, and if that doesn't work, there's a --allow-hosts flag to which you
>>> can pass None to prevent all downloading. Someone would have to test
>>> whether these work when passed to setup.py as well.
>>>
>>> - Josh
>>
>> i looked at this briefly. I don’t think it is possible to pass easy_install
>> options through setuptools. The only way I could get it to work was to
>> either 1) append to ports setup.cfg; 2) append/create system wide
>> distutils.cfg. Then you’d have to somehow revert upon failure/success. I
>> don’t see how this would work in practice.
>>
>> Kurt
>>
>> [easy_install]
>> allow_hosts = None
>
> These two lines are what would be appended to either of those files? What
> problems do you foresee if we would have the python portgroup automatically
> append those lines to the port's setup.cfg?
Could we place this into ${workdir}/.home/.pydistutils.cfg, which is in
the HOME for the macports user? As I understand the documentation linked
below, this file should be read by default. This could be done
unconditionally instead of editing the source files of the port.
https://docs.python.org/2/install/index.html#location-and-names-of-config-files
Rainer
