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Re: Guix's python has pip's user dir in its loadpath
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Wojtek Kosior |
Subject: |
Re: Guix's python has pip's user dir in its loadpath |
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Tue, 11 Jul 2023 20:21:37 +0200 |
> I think maybe we could add a build argument called
> e.g. '#:honor-user-site?' to disable the having PYTHONNOUSERSITE=1 in
> the wrapper for a few select packages (e.g. pip, virtualenv, probably a
> few others that are expected to work with or honor pip user-installed
> Python packages).
>
I just did[1] this (with some new developments described in the cover
letter). As this was my first attempt at sending patches to Guix,
please forgive my mistakes :)
Best,
Wojtek
[1] https://issues.guix.gnu.org/64573
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On Sat, 08 Jul 2023 01:08:30 -0400 Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Wojtek Kosior <koszko@koszko.org> writes:
>
> >> > I just saw this message and hurried myself up to test the patch to
> >> > python-build-system that I made. Unfortunately, it turns out the
> >> > "PYTHONNOUSERSITE=1" env var breaks pip which tries to install wheels to
> >> > the system site directory and fails due to a read-only filesystem.
> >>
> >> I'm not sure I follow; why would PYTHONNOUSERSITE affect pip? I thought
> >> it should only appear in wrappers of Python executables, not be set in a
> >> profile's environment (thus not affecting pip) ?
> >
> > Indeed. And once I make my change, PYTHONNOUSERSITE gets also placed in
> > the wrapper of the `pip` executable.
> >
> >> Could you share the diff of the patch you tried so far?
> >
> > I am attaching the patch file.
> >
> > I was trying to test with
> >
> > ./pre-inst-env guix shell -C --network --no-cwd python-xmldiff
> > coreutils python-pip
> > pip install xmldiff==2.4
> > echo > ~/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/xmldiff/main.py
> > xmldiff --help
> >
> > Without my patch, we get an error on 4th line. With my patch, we get
> > the "Read-only file system" error on the 2nd line
>
> Neat! I think maybe we could add a build argument called
> e.g. '#:honor-user-site?' to disable the having PYTHONNOUSERSITE=1 in
> the wrapper for a few select packages (e.g. pip, virtualenv, probably a
> few others that are expected to work with or honor pip user-installed
> Python packages).
>
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- Re: Guix's python has pip's user dir in its loadpath, Wojtek Kosior, 2023/07/01
- Re: Guix's python has pip's user dir in its loadpath, Maxim Cournoyer, 2023/07/01
- Re: Guix's python has pip's user dir in its loadpath, John Kehayias, 2023/07/05
- Re: Guix's python has pip's user dir in its loadpath, Maxim Cournoyer, 2023/07/06
- Re: Guix's python has pip's user dir in its loadpath, Wojtek Kosior, 2023/07/06
- Re: Guix's python has pip's user dir in its loadpath, Maxim Cournoyer, 2023/07/07
- Re: Guix's python has pip's user dir in its loadpath, Wojtek Kosior, 2023/07/07
- Re: Guix's python has pip's user dir in its loadpath, Maxim Cournoyer, 2023/07/08
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