setup.py is not PEP517 compliant

[ubuntu-server-builder]

This bug was originally filed in Launchpad as LP: #1978328

Launchpad details

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Launchpad user Brett Holman(holmanb) wrote on 2022-06-10T15:57:48.990151+00:00

A bug[1] was filed downstream for this, and reported upstream in #cloud-init IRC by Sam (Gentoo maintainer).

This causes build failure on Gentoo/OpenRC, which is carrying a downstream workaround[2] for now.

It looks like the upstream installation method for init scripts and additional bits (non-Python files at all) isn't compatible with PEP517, so PEP517 installs are broken right now.

PEP517 with the wheel spec doesn't have a good way of installing data files.

[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/850628
[2] gentoo/gentoo@44cfdb3

[ubuntu-server-builder]

Launchpad user Brett Holman(holmanb) wrote on 2022-06-11T04:47:03.353253+00:00

Launchpad attachments: good.log

[ubuntu-server-builder]

Launchpad user Brett Holman(holmanb) wrote on 2022-06-11T04:47:30.949233+00:00

Launchpad attachments: bad.log

[ubuntu-server-builder]

Launchpad user Brett Holman(holmanb) wrote on 2022-06-11T04:53:08.624166+00:00

From Sam, after sharing the logs:

There's a hint of it at the very end because you see the chmod fails (there was a missing die in the ebuild).

run:

python -m build -C--init-system=openrc # no, that's not a typo, no space after 'C'
python3 -m installer dist/cloud*.whl --destdir=/tmp/foo

/tmp/foo/* only contains the usr/bin and usr/lib/*

[prometheanfire]

looks like this is still an issue :(

may be removed from gentoo because of it

https://bugs.gentoo.org/909872

[holmanb]

@prometheanfire thanks for the ping

I was just working on the upstream support for this today, will try to get this fixed asap.