nestegg

Contents

• Features
• Quick start
• Goals

On-demand, lightweight, package building pypi mirror

Features

Note

Still in early stages, though has enough features for me to use it

Implemented

• Pypi like repository: For software you author or python libraries you modify but only publish internally
• Pypi Mirror: Mirrors packages from pypi.python.org.
  • On demand: Packages are downloaded only when requested for.
  • Lightweight: Downloads and mirrors only those versions requested for.

TODO

• Continuous integration: Test all defined source builds at defined intervals and/or based on git / hg commits. Offer readonly web based interface to past tests and results
• Apache integration using mod_wsgi
• Refresh pypi packages and indices
• Additional python versions (currently tested only with python 3.3)

Quick start

• Create and activate a python virtual environment

  • Currently only tested with python version 3.3. Additional versions to be added later

• Install package:

  $ pip install nestegg
  

• Create configuration file for nestegg in your home directory $HOME/nestegg.yml

nestegg:
  nestegg_dir: /var/cache/nestegg                         # Where nestegg makes a nest
  port: 7654                                              # Port to run on
  index-url: https://pypi.python.org/simple               # Pypi Index URL
  source_builds:                                          # List of source builds
    - name: my_package_name                               # package name
      repo_type: git                                      # git and hg supported
      repo_url: git@mygithost.com:myuserid/mypackage.git  # git url here
      private: Yes                                        # private or public
      versions:
        - version: 1.0.0                                  # python version
          tag: 1.0.0                                      # git/hg branch/tag name
          dist_file: mypackage-1.0.0.tar.gz               # source dist file name

For each source build / version defined, nestegg will :

• Create a git or hg clone from the git / hg repo
• Checkout the defined tag / branch
• Create a source distribution using python setup.py sdist
• Publish the distribution to the nestegg package repository.
• You can install/use the distribution using pip, easy_install etc.

All the source builds and versions you defined will be cloned, the corresponding tag checked out and source distributi

• Start nestegg server:

$ nestegg
Bottle v0.11.6 server starting up (using WSGIRefServer())...
Listening on http://0.0.0.0:7654/
Hit Ctrl-C to quit.

Use http://localhost:7654/simple as the index url with pip or tox or other clients. eg.

$ pip install SQLAlchemy==0.8.2 --index-url=http://localhost:7654/simple

Goals

• Create a desktop / intranet mirror of all packages used. Create new test virtualenvs readily without having to wait for long downloads
• Manage versions of your package dependencies (even if pypi eventually unpublishes the versions you rely upon)
• Publish versions of libraries you fork, or any you create to a pypi like repository without having to publish it globally.
• Access control on git / hg repos can make it hard to use github / bitbucket tarballs in dependency_links. This circumvents that issue.
• (TODO) Continuous / automatic integration / testing of python packages you author and maintain. Intend to publish package information and their test results over http.