pbr doesn't like --index-url in requirements.txt

[Moritz]

My requirements.txt starts with a line like this (different URL):

--index-url http://server.local/

When I run python setup.py build, I get

$ python setup.py build
error in setup command: 'install_requires' must be a string or list of strings containing valid project/version requirement specifiers

Removing either pbr or the --index-url make the error go away.

(I need --index-url because I also use dh-virtualenv to build debian packages, and those don't have another means to pass the index URL).

[Christian Hopps (chopps)]

We cannot use this in any of our projects b/c we use a private index server. Can the importance of this be raised since it's been around for 2+ years now?

[Matthew Montgomery (mattmont)]

This is blocking us from easily using PBR for internal release work. Going to submit a patch to address this.

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Fix proposed to branch: master
Review: https://review.openstack.org/465941

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Reviewed: https://review.openstack.org/465941
Committed: https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack-dev/pbr/commit/?id=2a0f2e589c1f6375e3d2093619dcbedb1aa3284d
Submitter: Jenkins
Branch: master

commit 2a0f2e589c1f6375e3d2093619dcbedb1aa3284d
Author: Matthew Montgomery <email address hidden>
Date: Wed May 17 15:44:24 2017 -0500

    Ignore index URL lines in requirements.txt files

    Currently if an index is specified by either -i, --index-url or
    --extra-index-url, the following error may be encountered when
    setup is run.

    Invalid requirement, parse error at "u'-i https'"

    This patch ignores those lines in a requirements.txt file durning
    parsing.

    Closes-Bug: #1394999

    Change-Id: Ie03f54ca7a7edad7a26fa1721f7b26532b65e760

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

This issue was fixed in the openstack-dev/pbr 3.1.0 release.