search ignores extra-index-url

[nisavid]

i have a custom cheeseshop listed in ~/.pip/pip.conf. pip install works well using that cheeseshop, but pip search seems to totally ignore it. it seems like this feature should be available. other package managers include custom repositories when using their search functions.

i could do pip search --index {cheeseshop} {query}, but as i understand it, this would cause only a single cheeseshop to be searched.

my custom cheeseshop uses chishop, mostly with the default setup provided by its buildout script. it's perhaps worth mentioning that even with pip search --index, pip and chishop apparently don't want to talk to each other--the cheeseshop responds with an internal server error. i'm guessing this is a bug in chishop, so i'm filing it there. however, regardless of that issue, pip should query the custom cheeseshop when performing a search without --index.

if you'd like, i can provide a minimal example of my chishop and pip setup.

[carljm]

Yes, this is a problem. #395 documents the root cause and needed fix (it's not a quick fix), so closing this as duplicate of that one.