Keep old behavior of setuptools for editable installs
In the 25.0.0 release [1] of setuptools during any install
operation the package in not overwritten. If a package is
installed from another requirement via pip and then it is
installed again from git, it is not updated causing
check_libs_from_git to fail.
[1] https://setuptools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/history.html#v25-0-0
Change-Id: Ibaa1d4157816ea649f4452756fbde25951347001
Closes-Bug: #1605998
diff --git a/inc/python b/inc/python
index e013dfa..9de2831 100644
--- a/inc/python
+++ b/inc/python
@@ -148,11 +148,15 @@
fi
$xtrace
+ # adding SETUPTOOLS_SYS_PATH_TECHNIQUE is a workaround to keep
+ # the same behaviour of setuptools before version 25.0.0.
+ # related issue: https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/3874
$sudo_pip \
http_proxy="${http_proxy:-}" \
https_proxy="${https_proxy:-}" \
no_proxy="${no_proxy:-}" \
PIP_FIND_LINKS=$PIP_FIND_LINKS \
+ SETUPTOOLS_SYS_PATH_TECHNIQUE=rewrite \
$cmd_pip $upgrade \
$@
result=$?