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c00kiemonster
c00kiemonster

Reputation: 23381

What are my alternatives to manage Python packages for clients?

So the setup is a slew of proprietary server/client Python applications running on one Linux box (the server) and a set of Windows 7 workstations (the clients). Everything is running smoothly until any of the proprietary Python packages needs updating.

For now I am using distutils eggs which are very easily updated with easy_install, but it is still a manual process which quickly becomes tedious as the number of applications and client workstations grow.

The ideal setup IMHO is to have the Python packages on the server so when a client application is launched on a workstation the client application can check to see whether its current Python packages are up-to-date. If not, the client application should download the newer Python package from the server, install it, and then launch as per normal.

Does this sounds familiar to anyone? I have tried to find alternatives myself, but as far as I can see there is no Python module offering this functionality. Does anyone have any home made solutions for this?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 614

Answers (1)

K Z
K Z

Reputation: 30483

Yes! pip2pi is should be exactly what you are looking for.

From the docs:

pip2pi builds a PyPI-compatible package repository from pip requirements

pip2pi allows you to create your own PyPI index by using two simple commands:

  1. To mirror a package and all of its requirements, use pip2tgz:

    $ cd /tmp/; mkdir package/
$ pip2tgz packages/ httpie==0.2
...
$ ls packages/
Pygments-1.5.tar.gz
httpie-0.2.0.tar.gz
requests-0.14.0.tar.gz

  2. To build a package index from the previous directory:

    $ ls packages/
bar-0.8.tar.gz
baz-0.3.tar.gz
foo-1.2.tar.gz
$ dir2pi packages/
$ find packages/
/httpie-0.2.0.tar.gz
/Pygments-1.5.tar.gz
/requests-0.14.0.tar.gz
/simple
/simple/httpie
/simple/httpie/httpie-0.2.0.tar.gz
/simple/Pygments
/simple/Pygments/Pygments-1.5.tar.gz
/simple/requests
/simple/requests/requests-0.14.0.tar.gz

  3. To install from the index you built in step 2., you can simply use:

    pip install --index-url=file:///tmp/packages/simple/ httpie==0.2

You can also mirror your own index to a remote host with pip2pi.

Upvotes: 2

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