diskimage-builder/elements/pypi/README.md
Robert Collins ee18fe41da Permit use of wheel mirrors in pypi element.
pypi-mirror creates a separate mirror index for wheels (one per OS
that mirrors are built on). To be able to use it one then needs to be
able to export multiple mirrors for inclusion in pip.conf. As a drive
by I made it possible to disable the use of the pypi.python.org index
without using --offline (as --offline has larger impact).

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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. 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/
[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