[Buildroot] Private mirror repository for Python package dependencies -- howto?

[Buildroot] Private mirror repository for Python package dependencies -- howto?

[Robert Lerche]

Buildroot provides a simple and effective means to specify a private mirror
for package source code components (BR2_PRIMARY_SITE).  This is essential
for a company basing an embedded system product on Buildroot.

Is there an equivalent mechanism to support a private repository for Python
package dependencies?  Otherwise distutils and setuptools will fetch from
public sources even though the package base comes from the private mirror.

Thanks.
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[Buildroot] Private mirror repository for Python package dependencies -- howto?

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

On Fri, 29 Sep 2017 09:53:25 -0700, Robert Lerche wrote:
> Buildroot provides a simple and effective means to specify a private mirror
> for package source code components (BR2_PRIMARY_SITE).  This is essential
> for a company basing an embedded system product on Buildroot.
> 
> Is there an equivalent mechanism to support a private repository for Python
> package dependencies?  Otherwise distutils and setuptools will fetch from
> public sources even though the package base comes from the private mirror.

This should never happen. If a Python package downloads its
dependencies by itself without going through Buildroot's download
mechanism, it's a bug.

Could you give a more specific example of a problematic Python package ?

Best regards,

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com

[Buildroot] Private mirror repository for Python package dependencies -- howto?

[Robert Lerche]

Thanks for your response.

At the request of one of our developers I added Python connexion (
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/connexion) which in turn pulled in a bunch of
other components (flake8, mccabe, pyflakes, pycodestyle, pytest-runner).

Reading between the lines of your mail, I added each of those components
individually to my customized Buildroot and that takes care of the issue.

On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 12:51 PM, Thomas Petazzoni <
thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> On Fri, 29 Sep 2017 09:53:25 -0700, Robert Lerche wrote:
> > Buildroot provides a simple and effective means to specify a private
> mirror
> > for package source code components (BR2_PRIMARY_SITE).  This is essential
> > for a company basing an embedded system product on Buildroot.
> >
> > Is there an equivalent mechanism to support a private repository for
> Python
> > package dependencies?  Otherwise distutils and setuptools will fetch from
> > public sources even though the package base comes from the private
> mirror.
>
> This should never happen. If a Python package downloads its
> dependencies by itself without going through Buildroot's download
> mechanism, it's a bug.
>
> Could you give a more specific example of a problematic Python package ?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Thomas
> --
> Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
> Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
> http://free-electrons.com
>
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