pip_package supports installing directly from repositories

[ifosch]

I know it should be better to use pip module from ansible, but I couldn't find the way to install the egg with another name beyond the repository name.

[ninjabong]

yeah, quick googling reveals it's not possible with ansible's pip but suggests some alternatives, namely easy_install or command/shell roles.

I take it the playbook use would be something like this?

    - role: pip_package
      vcs_eggs:
        - { egg_name: "foo", address: "https://github.com/foo/bar" }

For now I'll leave this open, @rricard might have a better insight.

[rricard]

Well, I'm not that of a python guy but I think you should use easy install for that... And of course, we could do something prettier as @ninjabong advised...

[ifosch]

Ok, I'll take a closer look at this! I chose the pip thing, because pip is
the recommended way of installing things in Python, but this would be done
using easy_install, also. I'll work on this next.

On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 3:55 PM, Robin Ricard [email protected]
wrote:

Well, I'm not that of a python guy but I think you should use easy install
for that... And of course, we could do something prettier as @ninjabong
https://github.com/ninjabong advised...

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