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| author | Jason R. Coombs <jaraco@jaraco.com> | 2013-11-14 10:40:32 -0500 |
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| committer | Jason R. Coombs <jaraco@jaraco.com> | 2013-11-14 10:40:32 -0500 |
| commit | 6797a9d07f8aa4db29d0ac7e343bf04898514e67 (patch) | |
| tree | 80c2484b56c5cbc4879dff2624d9cb6c3f7dcd1e /docs | |
| parent | e91750870026844cb8729f99182d9707625ae0fa (diff) | |
| parent | 915b99c8440fe0aa04609ce249a0e845f5b97e44 (diff) | |
| download | python-setuptools-git-6797a9d07f8aa4db29d0ac7e343bf04898514e67.tar.gz | |
Merge support for loading credentials from .pypirc (based on pull request #11). Fixes #27.
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diff --git a/docs/easy_install.txt b/docs/easy_install.txt index 42a5323d..a69ddd59 100644 --- a/docs/easy_install.txt +++ b/docs/easy_install.txt @@ -486,6 +486,15 @@ You can do this with both index page URLs and direct download URLs. As long as any HTML pages read by easy_install use *relative* links to point to the downloads, the same user ID and password will be used to do the downloading. +Using .pypirc Credentials +------------------------- + +In additional to supplying credentials in the URL, ``easy_install`` will also +honor credentials if present in the .pypirc file. Teams maintaining a private +repository of packages may already have defined access credentials for +uploading packages according to the distutils documentation. ``easy_install`` +will attempt to honor those if present. Refer to the distutils documentation +for Python 2.5 or later for details on the syntax. Controlling Build Options ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |