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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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |