I have a bunch of machines that are isolated from the internet, and only have access to some services on the local network.
I want the users using those machines to be able to search for and install whatever python libraries they want from a local pypi server. I therefore created a global pip.conf under /etc/ which contains the following lines:
[global]
trusted-host = my.pypi-server.com
index-url = https://my.pypi-server.com/
This works when the name of the library is known and you just run pip install fancy-lib. However, when searching for a package, pip seems to ignore index-url:
$ pip search fancy-lib -vvvv
Starting new HTTPS connection (1): pypi.python.org
$ pip install fancy-lib -vvvv
Collecting fancy-lib
1 location(s) to search for versions of fancy-lib:
* https://my.pypi-server.com/simple/fancy-lib
Getting page https://my.pypi-server.com/simple/fancy-lib
Looking up "https://my.pypi-server.com/simple/fancy-lib" in the cache
No cache entry available
Starting new HTTPS connection (1): https://my.pypi-server.com/
How can I make pip search work with my local pypi server?