执行`setup.py test`时不要安装依赖项

Question

I want to do an offline installation of a python package. As part of the installation, I run the package's tests with python3 setup.py test . When I run the test command, setuptools fetches all of the unsatisfied dependencies from pypi.python.org . However I'm providing all of the package's dependencies and if a dependency isn't satisfied, I want that to be an error -- I don't want setuptools to download dependencies for me. I'm not sure how to disable this behavior, or even how to tell it to use a different server. How can I stop this?

Answer 1

OK, so here's one way to do it. It's possibly not the most elegant and it has some downsides, but it seems to work.

Create (or modify an existing) setup.cfg file with the following lines:

[easy_install]
find_links = file:///dev/null
index_url = file:///dev/null

This will inform easy_install (which is what is operating under the hood) to not use any external pypi server.