Executing Buildout in offline mode

Specifying package versions is critical to creating a KGS.

So, what happens if the Internet goes down and/or you are unable to reach http://dist.plone.org/release/3.3.5/versions.cfg?

For this, we have two approaches.

The first, newer approach is to use Buildout's extends cache feature, information about which is available on http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zc.buildout#caching-extended-configuration We will not cover that here, but it is probably worth a look.

In the worst-case scenario though, you can try the following approach.

Inside the code bundle in the versions.cfg file, we have included the contents of http://dist.plone.org/release/3.3.5/versions.cfg.

In the event you lose connectivity, or you want to deploy to an environment sans Internet, you need two things:

• The packages themselves (which reside in the eggs directory)

• Their version specifications

We already included version specifications for our add-on packages in 08-future-versions.cfg, which we discovered...