Bug #7322
Updated by Ward Vandewege over 8 years ago
The current arvados/jobs image can't run virtualenv:
<pre>crunch@5bcd6e461833:/$ virtualenv --system-site-packages --python=python2.7 /tmp/venv
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/virtualenv", line 5, in <module>
from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
ImportError: No module named pkg_resources
</pre>
The python-virtualenv package in Debian declares dependencies on other packages like python-pkg-resources. Our backport is missing those dependencies.
Fix this one way or another. I'm surprised fpm isn't picking them up; it might be worth spending a little time to investigate why that is. But if it's not clear, or if it's a huge pain to fix, adding @/backports/python-virtualenv/fpm-info.sh@ to our source would be acceptable.
We only backport the virtualenv package for debian7, debian8 and ubuntu1204. Looks like this backport was introduced in the very first checkin of the run-build-packages.sh script. Do we even need this backport?