Configure and customize pip

You can customize your pip.conf to point to a custom pypi repository

Sometimes a pip user may want to install a python package from a repository other than http://pypi.python.org/simple/.

ONAP has a staging repository in nexus3 for example at https://nexus3.onap.org/repository/PyPi.staging/.

By default, when you "pip install" it pulls from the public pypi repo, but if you want to pull from a custom repo there are 3 ways to do so (listed in order of precedence):

1. By passing a CLI flag to specify a custom index url

   pip install -i/--index-url <url> <package>

2. By setting an environment variable

   export PIP_INDEX_URL=<url> pip install <package>

3. By specifying in a custom pip.conf file

   [global] timeout = 60 index-url = https://nexus3.onap.org/repository/PyPi/simple

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