As I am often travelling much of my work happens during train rides. To be independent of any Internet connection I set up a local DevPi server which caches all my package needs.
DevPi Server right at your Mac
If you read my previous post Don't mess with system's site-packages you should be prepared as you surely installed pipsi already, didn't you?
1 | $ pipsi install devpi-server
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Let's check if everything is at its place.
1 2 | $ which devpi-server
/Users/johndoe/.local/bin/devpi-server
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From now on you are able to start you local DevPi server.
1 | $ devpi-server
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You can also launch it in the background as a daemon.
1 | $ devpi-server --start
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Assuming that you already created and activated a fresh virtualenv you can start installing some packages though your local DevPi server now:
1 | $ pip install --index-url http://localhost:3141/root/pypi/+simple/ django
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The lazy ones do not want to mention the index-url every time they are installing new packages and set up a local config file at their user's home directory.
1 2 3 | # ~/.pip/pip.conf [global] index-url = http://localhost:3141/root/pypi/+simple/ |
There are also some other pip configuration options which are covered by pip's docs.
Even if your corporate internet is everything but fast I would advice you setting up and using a local DevPi server. This is especially useful at build environments which create a fresh setup on every build. Utilizing DevPi will result in huge speed ups.