Use a filesystem directory instead of pypi behind a corporate firewall?

Question

I am working on a product with a large number of python dependencies within a corporation that does not permit servers to contact external machines. Any attempt to circumvent this rule would be judged harshly.

The application is deployed via a batch-script (it's 32 bit windows) into a virtualenv. This batch script (ideally) should do nothing more than

# Precondition: Source code has been checked-out into myprog/src
cd myprog/src
setup.py install # <-- fails because of dependencies
myprog.exe

The problem comes with managing the dependencies - since it's impossible for the server to connect to the outside world my only solution is to have the script easy_install each of the dependencies before the setup starts, something like this:

cd myproc/deps/windows32
easy_install foo-1.2.3.egg
easy_install bar-2.3.4.egg
easy_install baz-3.4.5.egg <-- works but is annoying/wrong
cd ../../myprog/src
setup.py install
myprog.exe

What I'd like to do is make it so that the setup.py script knows where to fetch it's dependencies from. Ideally this should be set as a command-line argument or environment variable, that way I'm not going to hard-code the location of the dependencies into the project.

Ideally I'd like all of the eggs to be part of a 'distributions' directory: This can be on a network drive, shared on a web-server or possibly even be deployed to a local folder on each of the servers.

Can this be done?

Answer 1

I think what you are looking for is these options to pip : --no-index and --find-links :

--no-index
--find-links /my/local/archives
--find-links http://some.archives.com/archives

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