> On Nov 8, 2017, at 9:41 PM, Kurt Hindenburg <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> On Nov 8, 2017, at 12:13 PM, Rainer Müller <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> On 2017-11-08 17:32, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Nov 8, 2017, at 08:24, Kurt Hindenburg wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 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
> 
> Ok, I didn’t realize ${workdir}/.home would be used.  It works as expected if 
> the 2 lines are in that file.  Also note that the errors are verbose and 
> perhaps not clear to the user what the issue is.
>  I’ll see about putting the code in the python PG and create a pull request 
> for comments.
> 
https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/1016 
<https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/1016>


> Thanks
>   Kurt
> 

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