[chef] easy_install_package remote tarball installation

[Kevin Nuckolls < >]

On the command line I can do the following and it works!

sudo easy_install http://launchpad.net/graphite/1.0/0.9.8/+download/whisper-0.9.8.tar.gz

The corresponding resource definition fails.

easy_install_package "http://launchpad.net/graphite/1.0/0.9.8/+download/whisper-0.9.8.tar.gz" do

  action :install

end

INFO: Processing easy_install_package[http://launchpad.net/graphite/1.0/0.9.8/+download/whisper-0.9.8.tar.gz] action install (graphite::default line 16)

...

...

FATAL: Chef::Exceptions::Package: easy_install_package[http://launchpad.net/graphite/1.0/0.9.8/+download/whisper-0.9.8.tar.gz] (graphite::default line 16) had an error: No version specified, and no candidate version available for http://launchpad.net/graphite/1.0/0.9.8/+download/whisper-0.9.8.tar.gz

Is this expected? Is there a way to install a python package this way? I can't seem to find one.