Spynepi

This is a caching PyPI implementation that can be used as a standalone PyPI server as well as a PyPI cache. It can be used to freeze a deployment, or as a precaution to PyPI or local network going down.

As the name suggests, it is using spyne http://pypi.python.org/pypi/spyne

Requirements

Spynepi uses some subsystems of Spyne which require additional dependencies and Twisted as wsgi server:

• Spyne: http://github.com/arskom/spyne
• Twisted: http://twistedmatrix.com/
• SQLAlchemy: http://sqlalchemy.org
• Werkzeug: http://werkzeug.pocoo.org/
• Docutils: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/docutils

Installation

You can get spynepi via pypi: :

easy_install spynepi

or you can clone from github: :

git clone git://github.com/arskom/spynepi.git

or get the source distribution from one of the download sites and unpack it.

To install from source distribution, you should run its setup script as usual: :

python setup.py install

And if you want to make any changes to the spynepi code, it's more comfortable to use: :

python setup.py develop

Using Spynepi

You can start spynepi with: :

$ spynepi_daemon

You can upload packages with: :

$ python setup.py register -r local sdist upload -r spynepi

And you can download packages with: :

$ easy_install --user -U -i http://localhost:7789 package

Configuration

Config file for spynepi can be found inside spynepi/const/__init__.py

• DB_CONNECTION_STRING : Default database for spynepi is sqlite. If you wish to use a different database you can change this line. It must be an sqlalchemy compatiable database connection string

  For detatils please read http://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/rel_0_7/core/engines.html

• FILES_PATH : Path which packages will be stored in default it creates a file named files
• HOST : The host to bind to. Default is 0.0.0.0, binds to all interfaces.
• PORT : The port to listen to. Default is 7789
• REPO_NAME: The name of the spynepi repository in the .pypirc of the user that runs Spynepi. Default is 'spynepi'. The pypirc file is found at ~/.pypirc and is automatically generated or edited by Spynepi when needed.
• TABLE_PREFIX: Prefix for tables which sqlalchemy will create. Its default value is 'spynepi'.

Caveats

Spynepi is a work in progress, so not all of CheeseShop functionality is implemented. Actually, there are major missing features:

1. No security and data validation precautions are implemented. (Issues 12&18)
2. Once a package is cached, there's no way of updating it. (Issue 16)

These two features make Spynepi suitable only for somewhat temporary deployments in protected networks. Patches are welcome!

See the issue tracker at github (https://github.com/arskom/spynepi/issues) for an up-to-date list.

A temporary nuisance is the fact that Spynepi uses features from Spyne-2.10.0 which is not yet released. You should clone git://github.com/arskom/spyne and install it first before attempting to install Spynepi

Contributing

Currently, there are no cannonical of getting in touch with the maintainers. You can shoot us an email, tweet or just file an issue.

If you're using Spyne or Spynepi, don't forget to star these projects on github! Thanks for reading this far :)