[TIP] tox offline usage

[Aaron Meurer]

On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 1:30 AM, holger krekel <holger at merlinux.eu> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 16:23 -0600, Aaron Meurer wrote:
>> On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 7:25 AM, holger krekel <holger at merlinux.eu> wrote:
>> > Hi Alexander, Aaron,
>> >
>> > On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 15:35 -0600, Aaron Meurer wrote:
>> >> On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Alexander Steinert <sputnik at termo.net> wrote:
>> >> > Dear list,
>> >> >
>> >> > I would like to use tox in an environment that has no internet access.
>> >> > In my trivial example, I specify a dependency in the testenv section:
>> >> >
>> >> >    [tox]
>> >> >    envlist = py26
>> >> >    [testenv]
>> >> >    deps = pytest==2.0.3
>> >> >    commands = true
>> >> >
>> >> > I want tox to install the pytest-2.0.3.zip distribution that exists in
>> >> > my file system, say ./lib/pytest-2.0.3.zip.
>> >> >
>> >> > With pip, I can achieve that by using --no-index and --find-links, but I
>> >> > found no way to tell tox to call pip that way.
>> >> >
>> >> > Using the indexserver setting would require me to have a PyPI server
>> >> > running in my network. I'd like to avoid that.
>> >> >
>> >> > Apart from patching tox' code, is there any other way to achieve my
>> >> > goal?
>> >
>> > you could try to copy pytest-2.0.3 and others dependencies into
>> > $HOME/.tox/distshare - which is looked up by tox.
>> >
>> > See the docs for more info:
>> > http://readthedocs.org/docs/tox/en/latest/example/general.html?highlight=distshare#access-package-artifacts-between-multiple-tox-runs
>> >
>> >> > While we're at it: When I run tox (configured as above) for the first
>> >> > time, it fails (as expected) with "could not install deps
>> >> > [pytest==2.0.3]". When run again, it is happily "reusing existing
>> >> > matching virtualenv py26" and running /bin/true but silently ignoring
>> >> > the missing dependency. Should I file a bug report?
>> >>
>> >> I've also noticed this.  Is this an intended behavior?  It's let me to
>> >> be confused a couple of times regarding dependencies that don't
>> >> install properly (see my previous threads on this mailing list).
>> >
>> > Would be good if one of you provides a minimal example and
>> > post an issue on the tracker.
>>
>> Sure, but where is the issue tracker?  A Google search for "tox issue
>> tracker" didn't bring up anything that seems to be it.
>
> sure, you can find the relevant link here:
>
> http://tox.readthedocs.org/en/latest/support.html#support
>
> Actually, there _should_ be a top-level navigation link but
> i just noticed that readthedocs does not display the navigation
> header :/
>
> best,
> holger

See https://bitbucket.org/hpk42/tox/issue/6/tox-should-try-to-reinstall-dependencies.

Aaron Meurer

>
>> Aaron Meurer
>>
>> >
>> >> By the way, if you're wondering, I would prefer that it didn't do
>> >> this, because if it can't install all the dependencies correctly, then
>> >> I consider that particular test environment to be broken, and the way
>> >> it is now, it falsely makes it appear that they are not.
>> >
>> > right.
>> >
>> > holger
>> >
>>
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