diskimage-builder/elements/pypi/README.md
Steve Baker e822a0ff5a Always bind-mount pypi mirror if dir exists
It may be desirable to specify file://tmp/pypi as one of the list
of mirrors specified by PYPI_MIRROR_URL, so the local pypi mirror
should be mounted as long as the directory exists.

Even though the path is mounted, it is only used by pip if there is
no specified PYPI_MIRROR_URL, or if one PYPI_MIRROR_URL entry
specifies file://tmp/pypi.

The pypi element previously assumed that a local mirror would be
a complete offline mirror. This change allows for a mixture of
local mirror plus remote mirrors. This means that the local
mirror could (for example) contain a few locally built pip packages
from arbitrary git checkouts for gate testing of those projects.
In this scenario, most packages would be downloaded from the
configured remote mirrors.

This change is required for synchronous gating on the os-*-config
tools.

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Inject a PyPI mirror
====================
Use a custom PyPI mirror to build images. The default is to bind mount one from
~/.cache/image-create/pypi/mirror into the build environment as mirror URL
file:///tmp/pypi. The element temporarily overwrites /root/.pip.conf
and .pydistutils.cfg to use it.
When online, the official pypi.python.org pypi index is supplied as an
extra-url, so uncached dependencies will still be available. When offline, only
the mirror is used - be warned that a stale mirror will cause build failures.
To disable the pypi.python.org index without using --offline (e.g. when working
behind a corporate firewall that prohibits pypi.python.org) set
DIB\_NO\_PYPI\_PIP to any non-empty value.
To use an arbitrary mirror set PYPI\_MIRROR\_URL=http[s]://somevalue/
Additional mirrors can be added by exporting PYPI\_MIRROR\_URL\_1=... etc. Only
the one mirror can be used by easy-install, but since wheels need to be in the
first mirror to be used, the last listed mirror is used as the pydistutils
index. NB: The sort order for these variables is a simple string sort - if
you have more than 9 additional mirrors, some care will be needed.
A typical use of this element is thus:
export PYPI\_MIRROR\_URL=http://site/pypi/Ubuntu-13.10
export PYPI\_MIRROR\_URL\_1=http://site/pypi/
export PYPI\_MIRROR\_URL\_2=file:///tmp/pypi
[pypi-mirror](https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack-infra/pypi-mirror) can
be useful in making a partial PyPI mirror suitable for building images. For
instance:
* sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev libxslt-dev libmysqlclient-dev libpq-dev \
libnspr4-dev pkg-config libsqlite3-dev libzmq-dev libffi-dev libldap2-dev \
libsasl2-dev
* pip install git+https://git.openstack.org/openstack-infra/pypi-mirror
* cat << EOF > mirror.yaml
cache-root: /home/USER/.cache/image-create/pypi/download
mirrors:
- name: openstack
projects:
- https://git.openstack.org/openstack/requirements
output: /home/USER/.cache/image-create/pypi/mirror
EOF
* mkdir -p /home/USER/.cache/image-create/pypi/{download,mirror}
* run-mirror -b remotes/origin/master --verbose -c mirror.yaml
# This creates and updates the mirror.
If you have additional packages that are not identified in the global openstack
requirements project, you can include them:
* pip install -d ~/.cache/image-create/pypi/download/pip/openstack \
heat-cfntools distribute os-apply-config
run-mirror -b remotes/origin/master --verbose -c mirror.yaml --no-download
A dedicated user with no privileges may be desirable when running this for
unattended installs, since pypi-mirror will compile fairly arbitrary code from
the internet.