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On 2022-04-13 11:59:20 +0000 (+0000), Jeremy Stanley wrote:
[...]
> Forgive me as caffeine is still finding its way into my veins, but
> it has occurred to me that the error is occurring because we're
> calling PBR (and thus Git) while installing the software, when
> that's not strictly necessary. It happens because we're taking
> advantage of pip's ability to call out to a build process before
> installing, but we can always separate building and installing. The
> former doesn't need root privs, and the latter doesn't need to call
> PBR/Git.
> 
> Update the install-from-source routine to build a wheel as stack and
> then only sudo pip install the resulting wheel.

I was able to make a successful go of this in
https://review.opendev.org/837731 so if there's interest we have
evidence it's possible to continue down that path. Unfortunately, it
comes at the expense of losing editable mode installation (pip
install -e, setup.py develop) as that doesn't use pip's normal
package-then-install codepath and instead tightly couples the build
and install steps.

I've heard from a couple of people so far that editable mode support
in DevStack is critical to keep, so it's probably better to
resurrect the venv install solution in
https://review.opendev.org/558930 since that would allow us to drop
the `sudo pip install` nastiness once and for all.
-- 
Jeremy Stanley
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