Commit f2bd1273 authored by Chris Withers's avatar Chris Withers

change "finding distributions" docs to correctly describe index and find-links behaviour

parent 2bec4fbb
......@@ -2222,11 +2222,24 @@ Finding distributions
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By default, buildout searches the Python Package Index when looking
for distributions. The `find-links` options allows the addition of
more locations to search and is used extensively in this
documentation.
for distributions. You can, instead, specify your own index to search
using the `index` option::
These can be urls::
[buildout]
...
index = http://index.example.com/
This index, or the default of http://pypi.python.org/simple/ if no
index is specified, will always be searched for distributions unless
running buildout with options that prevent searching for
distributions. The latest version of the distribution that meets the
requirements of the buildout will always be used.
You can also specify more locations to search for distributions using
the `find-links` option. All locations specified will be searched for
distributions along with the package index as described before.
Locations can be urls::
[buildout]
...
......@@ -2238,13 +2251,13 @@ They can also be directories on disk::
...
find-links = /some/path
Finally, direct paths to distributions can be specified::
Finally, they can also be direct paths to distributions::
[buildout]
...
find-links = /some/path/someegg-1.0.0-py2.3.egg
You can also specify more than one place to look::
Any number of locations can be specified in the `find-links` option::
[buildout]
...
......@@ -2253,12 +2266,6 @@ You can also specify more than one place to look::
/some/otherpath
/some/path/someegg-1.0.0-py2.3.egg
In this case, distribution sources are searched in the order
specified. In the event that a distribution cannot be found in any of
the locations specified, the python package index will still be
searched unless other buildout configuration options have prevented
this.
Dependency links
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