New Post and edited offlinepip

content/blog/offlinepip.md

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 pip install --no-index -f /path/to/wheels/wheels package_name
 ```
 
+If you don't want to add flags to every command, check out my post on using [configuration files with pip](https://brandonrozek.com/blog/pipconf/).
+

content/blog/pipconf.md

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+---
+title: "Pip Config"
+date: 2020-04-10T11:56:19-04:00
+draft: false
+tags: ["python"]
+---
+
+If you find yourself added flags to every pip command, consider adding those flag's to a pip configuration file.
+
+In order of importance, the configuration files will be located
+
+- Inside the virtualenv `/path/to/virtualenv/pip.conf`
+- In the user folder `~/.config/pip/pip.conf`
+- Site-wide `/etc/pip.conf`
+
+It is structured as an INI file where the blocks are the commands (`global` indicates all commands) 
+
+For an example, we can set the timeout for all commands to 60 seconds,  but the timeout for the freeze command to only 10 seconds.
+
+```ini
+[global]
+timeout = 60
+
+[freeze]
+timeout = 10
+```
+
+Boolean flags are set by assigning a value of `true` or `yes` to them
+
+```ini
+[install]
+ignore-installed = true
+```
+
+For operating in an offline environment,
+
+```ini
+[global]
+no-index = true
+find-links = /path/to/wheels
+```
+