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Pip 10 can't upgrade distutils installed packages without help #131
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According to the comments here, |
I mean you can set |
@coderanger You are right, if you encounter this error outside of the My thought with having it in the cookbook as a rescue is then the user wouldn't have to worry about the workaround on the slim chance that they hit it (Ubuntu 14.04 seems particularly prone to this when installing |
Would it be possible to rescue this type of failure and perform one of the workarounds, either
pip install --ignore-installed package
orrm -rf $PYTHON_PATH/site-packages/package
and then attempting the install via pip again to pull in the removed dependencies correctly?pypa/pip#5247 (comment)
We would like to stop pinning pip 9, but this pip 10 behavior has broken a number of our cookbooks sadly enough when trying to install the
awscli
via `python_package 'awscli', which is a pretty important package for everything else we do.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: