@@ -46,10 +46,36 @@ function install_get_pip {

         curl -o $LOCAL_PIP $PIP_GET_PIP_URL || \

             die $LINENO "Download of get-pip.py failed"

     fi

-    sudo -E python $LOCAL_PIP

+    sudo -H -E python $LOCAL_PIP

 }

+function configure_pypi_alternative_url {

+    PIP_ROOT_FOLDER="$HOME/.pip"

+    PIP_CONFIG_FILE="$PIP_ROOT_FOLDER/pip.conf"

+    if [[ ! -d $PIP_ROOT_FOLDER ]]; then

+        echo "Creating $PIP_ROOT_FOLDER"

+        mkdir $PIP_ROOT_FOLDER

+    fi

+    if [[ ! -f $PIP_CONFIG_FILE ]]; then

+        echo "Creating $PIP_CONFIG_FILE"

+        touch $PIP_CONFIG_FILE

+    fi

+    if ! ini_has_option "$PIP_CONFIG_FILE" "global" "index-url"; then

+        #it means that the index-url does not exist

+        iniset "$PIP_CONFIG_FILE" "global" "index-url" "$PYPI_OVERRIDE"

+    fi

+

+}

+

+# Setuptools 8 implements PEP 440, and 8.0.4 adds a warning triggered any time

+# pkg_resources inspects the list of installed Python packages if there are

+# non-compliant version numbers in the egg-info (for example, from distro

+# system packaged Python libraries). This is off by default after 8.2 but can

+# be enabled by uncommenting the lines below.

+#PYTHONWARNINGS=$PYTHONWARNINGS,always::RuntimeWarning:pkg_resources

+#export PYTHONWARNINGS

+

 # Show starting versions

 get_versions

@@ -60,4 +86,10 @@ uninstall_package python-pip

 install_get_pip

+if [[ -n $PYPI_ALTERNATIVE_URL ]]; then

+    configure_pypi_alternative_url

+fi

+

+pip_install -U setuptools

+

 get_versions