--target does not work with --user #3826

dholth · 2016-06-30T13:30:35Z

On Ubuntu 16.04, pip 8.1.1, --user is default, and --target does not work. Is there any reason to not just have an explicit command line argument --target override implicit --user? Needed for a setup-requires shim.

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/command/install.py", line 289, in finalize_options
    raise DistutilsOptionError("can't combine user with prefix, "
DistutilsOptionError: can't combine user with prefix, exec_prefix/home, or install_(plat)base

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RonnyPfannschmidt · 2016-06-30T14:02:01Z

well, its more of an ubuntu bug, they blindly patch things and then the world breaks ^^

ntninja · 2016-07-12T15:16:48Z

Got bitten by this today (Debian 9), officially Debian mentions #1668 as reason of applying this patch. The official work-around is to use the --system parameter to disable --user, but that will break whenever Debian's pip3 is not used. 😡

dstufft · 2016-07-12T17:17:26Z

Yea, I told Debian/Ubuntu not to apply said patch until we got all the issues worked out with it, they didn't want to wait on that. You'll need to raise the issue with them since their patch is causing the issue.

dstufft · 2016-07-12T17:26:52Z

The underlying issue here is that it's non-sensical for --target and --user to be used on the same command line, but the current setup doesn't make it easy to determine where a particular value came from. We're currently relying on our default of --user to not being on, and by switching the default Debuntu has broken an assumption we've made throughout the code base.

But please, file an issue with bugs.debian.org so that downstream can track issues with their patch and can get this resolved for you.

dholth · 2016-07-12T17:42:15Z

reported

asmodehn · 2016-08-19T09:17:10Z

I have a related issue for the same reason :

$ cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS \n \l
$ uname -a
Linux kinetic-VirtualBox 4.4.0-31-generic #50-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jul 13 00:07:12 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ pip install -r requirements.txt --prefix test_loc/
ERROR: Can not combine '--user' and '--prefix' as they imply different installation locations
You are using pip version 8.1.1, however version 8.1.2 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command.

Note this might be relevant to #1668 as well, since, even if --user is default, I may want to redirect where python packages get installed...
I believe the same is true for --target.

Or should I create a separate issue for this ?

techtonik · 2016-10-20T01:04:28Z

So does Ubuntu 16.10 fix that?

tfoote · 2016-10-28T16:33:44Z

@dholth could you link to the issue on debian?

techtonik · 2016-10-28T21:41:17Z

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=830892

techtonik · 2016-10-28T21:42:36Z

To me all three --user, --system and --target are mutually exclusive. Any explicit option should change the default and not depend on that.

techtonik · 2016-11-21T14:59:07Z

This patch should clarify the message for users af03a65

dstufft · 2017-03-30T20:13:59Z

Closing to move a bunch of related issues to a single issue: #4390.

Checks if the --system parameter exists; if so, use it. See pypa/pip#3826 (comment)

to pip, which cannot work with "--target". Therefore, "make" fails on current Debian stable (Stretch, 9). Just adding "--system" before "-t" fixes that. Yes, it's stupid, but it works. For more info, see: pypa/pip#3826

savraj · 2018-10-07T03:24:03Z

What is the workaround? I want target to take precedence and ignore any other inputs. Hmm.
pip install -r requirements.txt -t lib/ -- OK, found the workaround. It's adding --system
so
pip install -r requirements.txt --system -t lib/ thx!

devopsberlin · 2018-12-26T22:27:42Z

I am having the same issue on Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS, but it is working with --system flag.

master└─ $ cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS \n \l
master└─ $ uname -a
Linux 4.15.0-43-generic #46-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 6 14:45:28 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

requirements:

master└─ $ cat requirements-lambda.txt 
logger==1.4
requests==2.18.4
slackclient==1.2.1
elasticsearch==6.0.0
kafka==1.3.5

Exception:

sent 320,716 bytes  received 435 bytes  642,302.00 bytes/sec
total size is 319,089  speedup is 0.99
Collecting logger==1.4 (from -r requirements-lambda.txt (line 1))
Collecting requests==2.18.4 (from -r requirements-lambda.txt (line 2))
  Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/49/df/50aa1999ab9bde74656c2919d9c0c085fd2b3775fd3eca826012bef76d8c/requests-2.18.4-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting slackclient==1.2.1 (from -r requirements-lambda.txt (line 3))
Collecting elasticsearch==6.0.0 (from -r requirements-lambda.txt (line 4))
  Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/7a/06/4138270b44512484b3ddda7ff4a38e150cfc17a63ef3b2fa7e8c0b18029d/elasticsearch-6.0.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting kafka==1.3.5 (from -r requirements-lambda.txt (line 5))
  Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/21/71/73286e748ac5045b6a669c2fe44b03ac4c5d3d2af9291c4c6fc76438a9a9/kafka-1.3.5-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting idna<2.7,>=2.5 (from requests==2.18.4->-r requirements-lambda.txt (line 2))
  Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/27/cc/6dd9a3869f15c2edfab863b992838277279ce92663d334df9ecf5106f5c6/idna-2.6-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting certifi>=2017.4.17 (from requests==2.18.4->-r requirements-lambda.txt (line 2))
  Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/9f/e0/accfc1b56b57e9750eba272e24c4dddeac86852c2bebd1236674d7887e8a/certifi-2018.11.29-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting urllib3<1.23,>=1.21.1 (from requests==2.18.4->-r requirements-lambda.txt (line 2))
  Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/63/cb/6965947c13a94236f6d4b8223e21beb4d576dc72e8130bd7880f600839b8/urllib3-1.22-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting chardet<3.1.0,>=3.0.2 (from requests==2.18.4->-r requirements-lambda.txt (line 2))
  Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/bc/a9/01ffebfb562e4274b6487b4bb1ddec7ca55ec7510b22e4c51f14098443b8/chardet-3.0.4-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting websocket-client<1.0a0,>=0.35 (from slackclient==1.2.1->-r requirements-lambda.txt (line 3))
  Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/26/2d/f749a5c82f6192d77ed061a38e02001afcba55fe8477336d26a950ab17ce/websocket_client-0.54.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting six<2.0a0,>=1.10 (from slackclient==1.2.1->-r requirements-lambda.txt (line 3))
  Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/73/fb/00a976f728d0d1fecfe898238ce23f502a721c0ac0ecfedb80e0d88c64e9/six-1.12.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Installing collected packages: logger, idna, certifi, urllib3, chardet, requests, six, websocket-client, slackclient, elasticsearch, kafka
Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/basecommand.py", line 215, in main
    status = self.run(options, args)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/commands/install.py", line 360, in run
    prefix=options.prefix_path,
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/req/req_set.py", line 784, in install
    **kwargs
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/req/req_install.py", line 851, in install
    self.move_wheel_files(self.source_dir, root=root, prefix=prefix)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/req/req_install.py", line 1064, in move_wheel_files
    isolated=self.isolated,
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/wheel.py", line 247, in move_wheel_files
    prefix=prefix,
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/locations.py", line 153, in distutils_scheme
    i.finalize_options()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/distutils/command/install.py", line 274, in finalize_options
    raise DistutilsOptionError("can't combine user with prefix, "
distutils.errors.DistutilsOptionError: can't combine user with prefix, exec_prefix/home, or install_(plat)base

- related to pypa/pip#3826

- related to : pypa/pip#3826

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