Install

sudo pip install bdist-venv2

Example

Say you want to distribute a project called my-project. Get to its setup.py:

cd ~/code/my-project/src
ls
...
setup.py
...

Make sure you are not in a virtualenv (you can’t create a virtualenv from within a virtualenv). If you in one exit it:

deactivate

You can either create a “relocatable” virtualenv ala bdist_venv:

python setup.py bdist_venv2 -f gztar

or one “fixed-up” to be unpacked to a particular location:

python setup.py bdist_venv2 -l /usr/lib/my-package -f gztar

You’ll find the results in dist which might look something like:

ls dist
...
dist/my-package-0.1.0.linux_x86_64-py2.7.tar.gz
...

depending on your environment.

Usage

python setup.py bdist_venv2 --help

Common commands: (see '--help-commands' for more)

  setup.py build      will build the package underneath 'build/'
  setup.py install    will install the package

Global options:
  --verbose (-v)  run verbosely (default)
  --quiet (-q)    run quietly (turns verbosity off)
  --dry-run (-n)  don't actually do anything
  --help (-h)     show detailed help message
  --no-user-cfg   ignore pydistutils.cfg in your home directory

Options for 'bdist_venv2' command:
  --bdist-dir (-b)     temporary directory for creating the distribution
  --location-dir (-l)  location where virtualenv will be installed to
                       (default: relocatable)
  --extras (-e)        list of extras to included in the virtualenv
  --plat-name (-p)     platform name to embed in generated filenames (default:
                       linux-x86_64)
  --keep-temp (-k)     keep the installation tree around after creating the
                       distribution
  --keep-compiled      keep compiled files in the distribution
  --dist-name (-n)     name of the built distribution
  --dist-dir (-d)      directory to put final built distributions in
  --format (-f)        archive format to create (tar, ztar, gztar, zip)
                       (default: none)
  --owner (-u)         Owner name used when creating a tar file (default:
                       current user)
  --group (-g)         Group name used when creating a tar file (default:
                       current group)

usage: setup.py [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...]
   or: setup.py --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...]
   or: setup.py --help-commands
   or: setup.py cmd --help

0.1.2 (2014-01-05)

Initial release.