index-url option doesn't work with pip search

[orodbhen]

I have a package index setup on a LAN with no connection to the internet. I have index-url set to point to our index. Almost everything works well, except pip search always throws a ConnectionError.

Are there plans to support index-url for all pip commands. I'm curious as to why it would work with install, but not search.

[dstufft]

Try it with the develop version, I believe it works there.

[orodbhen]

I still get the ConnectionError. It seems that the url is hard-coded in commands/search.py:

class SearchCommand(Command):                                                                          
    """Search for PyPI packages whose name or summary contains <query>."""                             
    name = 'search'                                                                                    
    usage = """                                                                                        
    %prog [options] <query>"""                                                                       
    summary = 'Search PyPI for packages.'                                                              

    def __init__(self, *args, **kw):                                                                   
        super(SearchCommand, self).__init__(*args, **kw)                                               
        self.cmd_opts.add_option(                                                                      
            '--index',                                                                                 
            dest='index',                                                                              
            metavar='URL',                                                                             
            default='https://pypi.python.org/pypi',                                                    
            help='Base URL of Python Package Index (default %default)')                                

        self.parser.insert_option_group(0, self.cmd_opts)

I tried hard-coding a new url, but I'm using a local file:// cache, and the logic doesn't support that protocol.

[orodbhen]

Correction: It's not hard-coded. I can pass it the path using the --index option, but I get:

IOError: unsupported XML-RPC protocol

I can also set "index=" in pip.conf, but I get the same message. Is there a reason it uses "index" instead of "index-url"?

[dstufft]

The fact that it uses --index instead of --index-url is probably just an oversight.

The reason you get that error is the search command uses PyPI's XMLRPC api and your index doesn't support that.

[orodbhen]

Is there any interest in supporting the Simple API? I suppose the lack of meta-data makes it pretty limited, but it can at least return name and version.

[xavfernandez]

This looks like a duplicate of #589

[xavfernandez]

Closing as duplicate