Use SETUPTOOLS_USE_DISTUTILS=stdlib for global pip installs
A new setuptools release has changed the way pip installs are done,
see [0]. With this change we switch back to using the distro
method for global pip installs.
Temporarily make grenade jobs non-voting in order to allow this
patch to be backported.
[0] http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-discuss/2020-August/016905.html
Change-Id: I5d8aa0e58e0409c54451b51de5eb70ba9a68d849
diff --git a/inc/python b/inc/python
index f98d28d..8941fd0 100644
--- a/inc/python
+++ b/inc/python
@@ -170,7 +170,13 @@
local sudo_pip="env"
else
local cmd_pip="python$PYTHON3_VERSION -m pip"
- local sudo_pip="sudo -H LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8"
+ # See
+ # https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/2232
+ # http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-discuss/2020-August/016905.html
+ # this makes setuptools >=50 use the platform distutils.
+ # We only want to do this on global pip installs, not if
+ # installing in a virtualenv
+ local sudo_pip="sudo -H LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 SETUPTOOLS_USE_DISTUTILS=stdlib "
echo "Using python $PYTHON3_VERSION to install $package_dir"
fi