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`download` attempts to build instead of just downloading

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Pip version: 9.0.1
Python version: 2.7
Operating System: CentOS 7.3.1611

Description:

I’m attempting to use the download option to download a tar.gz from pypi of the GDAL package

What I’ve run:

.venv/bin/pip download GDAL==2.1.0 --verbose --no-cache-dir --no-dependencies -d ./

  Saved ./GDAL-2.1.0.tar.gz
  Running setup.py (path:/tmp/pip-build-Gk23rl/GDAL/setup.py) egg_info for package GDAL
    Running command python setup.py egg_info
    running egg_info
    creating pip-egg-info/GDAL.egg-info
    writing pip-egg-info/GDAL.egg-info/PKG-INFO

InstallationError: Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-T9q_eG/GDAL/

Pip appears to be running setup.py which isn’t what I want. I need to build the GDAL package with some optional flags that point to other header files.

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Created 7 years ago
Comments:7 (6 by maintainers)

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pfmoorecommented, Jan 17, 2017

@xavfernandez But doesn’t the issue description show --no-dependencies still executing setup.py? I’m inclined to think this is an error on pip’s part (unless the metadata is needed for some other aspect of pip download’s behaviour).

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dstufftcommented, Mar 31, 2017

Duplicate of #1884.