Help packaging azure-cli

[colemickens]

Hello.

I'm trying to package azure-cli for NixOS with an overlay using pypi2nix.

The very latest version(s) seem to rely on pip-10.0 (hence me filing #192) but I'm not sure they would've actually broken compatibility with older versions of pip, especially since I'm using requirements.txt.

Here's what I'm running:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

set -euo pipefail
set -x

docker run -it "microsoft/azure-cli-python:2.0.32" pip freeze \
    | head -n -2 > requirements.txt

sudo rm -rf /tmp/pypi2nix

# TODO: pretty sure this shouldn't need root...
sudo pypi2nix -v \
    --python-version "3.6" \
    --extra-build-inputs "gcc" \
    --extra-build-inputs "libffi" \
    --extra-build-inputs "openssl" \
    --requirements "./requirements.txt" \
        | tee "log.txt"

Here's the output: https://gist.github.com/d26b7f152e80d1eb0902ff45c9b6e419

Research:

• Unable to install on windows using pip (error in azure-mgmt-resource setup command) Azure/azure-cli#3160 - other users having install issues, possibly related to pip version
• Working backwards from the error about disabling bdist_wheel:
  • https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli/blob/712fd043a59ce1c588407f523e962994891ff077/src/command_modules/azure-cli-acr/setup.py#L14
  • https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli/blob/712fd043a59ce1c588407f523e962994891ff077/src/command_modules/azure-cli-acr/azure_bdist_wheel.py#L10 <- it imports wheel

I tried adding wheel as a --setup-requires but it fails from a ZIP 1970 error and I'm not sure it is the right fix anyway.

Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks!

[garbas]

@colemickens hey, i don't have time right now to look deeper into this, all i can promise is to come back to this in 2 weeks (if this is still the problem).

[layus]

@colemickens @garbas Maybe have a look at #238.

It seems we need to use the bdist_wheel wrapper provided by azure_bdist_wheel.py so that 'azure-namespace-package' option gets recognized.
Not too sure how to achieve that, because we explicitly do not install the wheel package (IIUC).

[garbas]

currently the problem is that azure-cli does not support latest wheel package and downgrading it is not yet possible.