[chef] Re: easy_install_package remote tarball installation

[Noah Kantrowitz < >]

On Aug 9, 2011, at 12:42 PM, Kevin Nuckolls wrote:

> 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.

There is no way to do an idempotence check on such a thing (at least not 
easily) since Chef can't know what version of that package is installed 
currently. It could potentially be improved with either a manual package name 
attr or an understanding of the #egg= tagging, but any such fixes would go in 
the pip install provider since no one should be using easy_install anymore :-D

--Noah

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