django-sha2 not installing on heroku server - django

Question

Im having problems deploying my django app to heroku
in the first part, heroku's push fails when it could not find any downloads for django-sha2==0.4 , however when i do pip install on my computer locally, it works
hh:djangoherokutest Kinnovate$ git push heroku master
Counting objects: 12, done.
Delta compression using up to 2 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (10/10), done.
Writing objects: 100% (10/10), 958 bytes, done.
Total 10 (delta 7), reused 0 (delta 0)
-----> Heroku receiving push
-----> Python/Django app detected
-----> Preparing virtualenv version 1.7
New python executable in ./bin/python
Installing distribute..............................................................................................................................................................................................done.
Installing pip...............done.
Overwriting ./bin/activate with new content
Overwriting ./bin/activate.fish with new content
Overwriting ./bin/activate.csh with new content
-----> Activating virtualenv
-----> Installing dependencies using pip version 1.0.2
Downloading/unpacking git+https://github.com/django/django.git (from -r requirements.txt (line 4))
Cloning https://github.com/django/django.git to /tmp/pip-Jvyfwt-build
Running setup.py egg_info for package from git+https://github.com/django/django.git
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): py-bcrypt==0.2 in ./lib/python2.7/site-packages (from -r requirements.txt (line 1))
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): ipython==0.12 in ./lib/python2.7/site-packages (from -r requirements.txt (line 2))
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): Flask==0.8 in ./lib/python2.7/site-packages (from -r requirements.txt (line 3))
Downloading/unpacking psycopg2==2.4.2 (from -r requirements.txt (line 5))
Running setup.py egg_info for package psycopg2
no previously-included directories found matching 'doc/src/_build'
Requested psycopg2==2.4.2 (from -r requirements.txt (line 5)), but installing version 2.4.4
Downloading/unpacking django-sha2==0.4 (from -r requirements.txt (line 6))
Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement django-sha2==0.4 (from -r requirements.txt (line 6))
No distributions at all found for django-sha2==0.4 (from -r requirements.txt (line 6))
Storing complete log in /app/.pip/pip.log
! Heroku push rejected, failed to compile Python/django app
To git#heroku.com:growing-mountain-9962.git
! [remote rejected] master -> master (pre-receive hook declined)
error: failed to push some refs to 'git#heroku.com:growing-mountain-9962.git'
hh:djangoherokutest Kinnovate$ pip install django-sha2
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): django-sha2 in /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django_sha2-0.4-py2.7.egg
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): Django>=1.2 in /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from django-sha2)
Cleaning up...
how do i fix this?

Answer 1

Try putting
git+https://github.com/fwenzel/django-sha2.git
instead of
django-sha2==0.4
in the requirements.txt. This will link straight to the package.