On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 3:26 AM, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: > In article <mailman.6949.1392429645.18130.python-l...@python.org>, > Ryan Gonzalez <rym...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> python setup.py sdist > > OK, I run that and I get a metar-1.4.0.tar.gz under dist. If I move > that tarfile to my packages directory, and run pip, I get: > > $ pip install --no-index --quiet --find-links packages metar==1.4.0 [snip] > ValueError: unknown url type: packages
The path to your cache directory is incorrect. I suggest using absolute paths (eg. /home/user/packages) instead of relative paths, which is likely what caused this issue. On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 7:47 PM, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: > What I can't figure out is what I need to do to go from a clone of the > github repo to a tarball I can drop into our packages directory. Is > there some tutorial somewhere that explains this? Actually, you could even tar up that entire repo (or even get a nice ready tarball from GItHub) and you will get something usable with pip. For example, we in the Nikola project (https://github.com/getnikola/nikola) upload the GitHub tarballs to PyPI because we ship 99.9% of our tree anyways and hiring `setup.py sdist` would be a waste of time (and would produce two almost-identical-but-not-quite tarballs). -- Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick <http://kwpolska.tk> PGP: 5EAAEA16 stop html mail | always bottom-post | only UTF-8 makes sense -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list