On Thu, Oct 25, 2007, Martin Aspeli wrote: >Carl Brewer wrote: > >>No, you're not. I always keep a copy of anything I install in my own >>local src directory. I work on the presumption that when I need to >>rebuild something, its hosting website will be down, the versions >>changed (dependency messes and all) and the author AWOL, and I have a >>client standing over me demanding that it be 'just like it was' Right Now! > >Of course, that's sensible > >>I assume buildout can use something like this. Relying on remotely >>hosted and maintained stuff for production systems is a disaster waiting >>to happen. > >If you put this in your ~/.buildout/default.cfg, you'll get all eggs >ever downloaded in ~/.buildout/eggs and all tarballs in >~/.buildout/downloads. So you won't have to download them yourself >separately. ;)
A problem I have that I haven't been able to figure out is how to work with eggs when building RPM packages for the OpenPKG portable package management systems. The standard distutils allows ``python setup.py install --root=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT'' to install relative to a build directory. Is there any similar ability when dealing with eggs? So far I find eggs to be particularly annoying in that building them often does what seem to me to be Strange Things(tm). I prefer to let the openpkg system deal with dependencies, not have something sucking packages off the 'Net when doing a scripted build. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 If you want government to intervene domestically, you're a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you're a conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you're a moderate. If you don't want government to intervene anywhere, you're an extremist -- Joseph Sobran _______________________________________________ Product-Developers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/product-developers
