When pants needs to install a package with pip is there any

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When pants needs to install a package with pip is there any way to get it to look at a local `pip conf` file I ll admit I haven t tried this to see what happens yet

fresh-cat-90827 · Answer

when I ve tried this a year ago it didn t work and I had to use <https www pantsbuild org v2 13 docs reference python repos>

fresh-cat-90827 · Answer

I don t think it works now either Which makes sense because authentication against custom PyPI servers can happen via multiple ways pip conf file netrc file etc

high-yak-85899 · Answer

Right the constraint I m working with seems like it would be fine outside of pants since the package installer would be `pip` and pip knows how to look for `pip conf` and I can place secrets in the urls for our developers in those local files Not great but at least workable

high-yak-85899 · Answer

But I have a feeling Pants might make that not feasible if it s using a pip installed inside its cache

high-yak-85899 · Answer

Trying to browse the code it kind of seems like it uses the system s pip I don t see it explicitly being pulled

high-yak-85899 · Answer

Looks like you can have a ` pants rc` file to do this

high-yak-85899 · Answer

which is less desirable as pointed out by <https github com pantsbuild pants issues 14928>

witty-crayon-22786 · Answer

gt Trying to browse the code it kind of seems like it uses the system s pip I don t see it explicitly being pulled `PEX` vendors `pip`

witty-crayon-22786 · Answer

don t know about the rest though sorry

fresh-cat-90827 · Answer

fwiw `PANTS PYTHON REPOS INDEXES` env var can be defined e g ` + <https user key server pypi pypi simple> ` and how you get your `user` and `key` is up to you i e you can retrieve it from your keyring or Vault or anything

fresh-cat-90827 · Answer

that s how we approach it in the CI