Run pip in subprocess to work around Debian crash

Pext · Mar 23, 2017 · 7cbdcd9 · 7cbdcd9
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commit 7cbdcd9
Showing 1 changed file with 11 additions and 8 deletions.
diff --git a/pext/__main__.py b/pext/__main__.py
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@
 import getopt
 import json
 import os
-import pip
 import signal
 import sys
 import threading
@@ -39,7 +38,7 @@
 
 from importlib import reload  # type: ignore
 from shutil import rmtree
-from subprocess import check_call, check_output, CalledProcessError, Popen
+from subprocess import check_call, check_output, CalledProcessError, Popen, run
 from typing import Dict, List, Optional, Tuple
 from urllib.error import URLError
 from urllib.request import urlopen
@@ -472,12 +471,16 @@ def _pip_install(self, module_dir_name: str) -> int:
             # Probably already exists, that's okay
             pass
 
-        return pip.main(['install',
-                         '--upgrade',
-                         '--target',
-                         module_dependencies_path,
-                         '-r',
-                         module_requirements_path])
+        return run([sys.executable,
+                    '-m',
+                    'pip',
+                    'install',
+                     '--system',
+                     '--upgrade',
+                     '--target',
+                     module_dependencies_path,
+                     '-r',
+                     module_requirements_path]).returncode
 
     def bind_logger(self, logger: Logger) -> str:
         """Connect a logger to the module manager.