Allow to set METADATA_URL in an environment variable #144

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1. dimbleby commented on Jul 11, 2024

   

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   I need to install poetry on a server that is not connected to internet.

   and what is the rest of your plan? how do you expect to download poetry?

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2. arnauddeblic commented on Jul 11, 2024

   

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   Many thanks @dimbleby for your very quick answer
   I realize I was not very clear ! To be more precise, my server has no direct access to internet, but is behind a "Sonatype Nexus Repository Manager" proxy.
   I already configured pip with pip config --global set global.index-url <my-sonartype-nexus-pypi-repository-url>
   With such an environment variable, I could either set a nexus-type url for https://pypi.org/pypi/poetry/json, or set a local path like "file:///D:/Python/_install/metadata.json"

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3. dimbleby commented on Jul 11, 2024

   

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   if you have a usable repository you probably are better off just using one of the other installation methods eg pipx, or manually create a venv and pip install poetry directly
4. arnauddeblic commented on Jul 11, 2024

   

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   I tryed both alternative methods, and my feeling was :

   • using pipx was more complex, since it needs to install a new tool
   • i was not very confortable with the manual installation, since it is not detailled for windows

   In addition, if i configure my nexus proxy so that it can serve the installation script beyond the firewall, I no longer need to previsously copy the the installation script on the server.

   I felt that using the official installer would be more straigtforward, I guess such a command would do the job :

   New-Item -Path Env:\POETRY_HOME -Value 'D:/Python/poetry'
   New-Item -Path Env:\POETRY_METADATA_URL -Value '<my-sonartype-nexus-pypi-poetry-json-url>'
   (Invoke-WebRequest -Uri <my-sonartype-nexus-install-python-poetry-url> -UseBasicParsing).Content | py -
   
5. dimbleby commented on Jul 11, 2024

   

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   I doubt nexus even offers the json API
6. arnauddeblic commented on Jul 11, 2024

   

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   Within "Sonatype Nexus Repository Manager", i can set any URL as a proxy, not necessarily a repository URL
   I could set https://pypi.org/pypi/poetry/json as a proxied-url, allowing me to reach the json content behind my firewall
   Unless I misunderstand your point... ;)
7. spcocs commented on Dec 10, 2025

   

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   When pypi.org is blocked, and if we can use another repository like Nexus, how can we install dependencies with poetry globally for any project without adding the poetry source to pyproject.toml in each application?
8. gmashrsa-design commented on May 23, 2026

   

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