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Support passing through find_links option to pip

See original GitHub issue

I want to install package which take ages and lots of RAM to compile from source from wheels instead. I was able to build the wheel just fine on a different machine with the same system.

Describe your environment

OS Type: Docker
Python version: 3.6.4
Pipenv version: 9.1.0

Expected result

I expected it to take the find_links option from my Pipfile and pass it to pip when calling pip install

Actual result

It does not pass this option, thus pip starting to build, taking forever and failing with an out of memory error eventually.

Steps to replicate

Add find_links = "wheelhouse/" to your Pipfile [[source]] section.

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 6 years ago
Comments:5 (3 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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kennethreitzcommented, Feb 26, 2018

this seems like a good idea.

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techalchemycommented, Feb 28, 2018

@Leonidas-from-XIV @jtratner I believe the real solution we will want to use is to always first generate a hash of the actual installation file we are using and add that as a main comparison point in some way

/cc @nateprewitt

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