Hi! I’m trying to use pants in an airgapped CI. I’m following the instructions in https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/proxies I have the

pex

dependency stored under a

pants_files

directory at the root of my repo. What should my

pants.toml

look like for

pants

to use the local

pex

file instead of downloading it form the internet? This does not work

[download-pex-bin]
url_template="<file://pants_files/pex>"

It fails with

Exception: Error (No such file or directory (os error 2)) opening file at /pex for download to pex

oof… it looks like there are some gaps there.

Hello! That needs to be an absolute path, I believe. Does it work if you use the absolute path to

pants_files/pex

? If that works, you can use

%(buildroot)s

to interpolate the absolute path to your build root, like

file://%(buildroot)s/pants_files/pex

I think

@hundreds-father-404: looks like it also assumes a hostname

Brilliant!

[download-pex-bin]
url_template = "<file://ignored/%(buildroot)s/pants_files/pex>"

worked! Thanks all!

as mentioned in the ticket, we might end up breaking backwards compatibility to fix that: sorry for the trouble. adding a TODO referencing the ticket wouldn’t hurt!