[1.x] Pass args fix2

[samskalicky]

Description

Cherry pick #18232 (#18237 in v1.7.x branch) and #18177

Checklist

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Changes

• Feature1, tests, (and when applicable, API doc)
• Feature2, tests, (and when applicable, API doc)

Comments

• If this change is a backward incompatible change, why must this change be made.
• Interesting edge cases to note here

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[ChaiBapchya]

https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/blob/80baab83775d54b1805a72254992a0fa87bd2f49/ci/docker/install/requirements#L30-L31

This has already been resolved in my PR #18220

18e2014

@samskalicky please rebase.

[ciyongch]

HI @samskalicky , please help to rebase to remove the conflicts :)

[samskalicky]

@ciyongch thanks for the reminder, I merged

[samskalicky]

@mxnet-bot run ci [edge, windows-gpu, centos-cpu, centos-gpu]

[mxnet-bot]

Jenkins CI successfully triggered : [edge, centos-cpu, windows-gpu, centos-gpu]

[samskalicky]

@ciyongch looks like the CI is currently broken for 1.x per @leezu

does this block the 1.7 release?

[ciyongch]

Hi @samskalicky , there's several PRs struggling with the CI failure so far. @waytrue17 is working on the fix of edge job (NVidia Jetson / ARMv8). While for the centos-gpu and centos-cpu jobs in this PR failed for Cannot open: https://centos7.iuscommunity.org/ius-release.rpm. Skipping., can you help to take a check? thanks!

[samskalicky]

According to iusrepo/announce#18 we need to change the path we use to install python in ci/docker/install/centos7_python.sh from https://centos7.iuscommunity.org/ius-release.rpm to https://repo.ius.io/ius-release-el7.rpm. Ive updated it, lets see if it passes CI now.

[leezu]

@mxnet-bot run ci [windows-gpu]

[mxnet-bot]

Jenkins CI successfully triggered : [windows-gpu]

[ciyongch]

Hi @samskalicky , probably rename the title to [1.x] instead of [1.7] for this PR? Thanks.

[samskalicky]

@mxnet-label-bot update [pr-awaiting-merge]

@ciyongch I updated the title, @leezu ready to merge!