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Bug 1654774 - dbus-python does not provide egg metadata in RPM
Summary: dbus-python does not provide egg metadata in RPM
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Classification: Red Hat
Component: dbus-python
Version: 8.1
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: rc
: 8.1
Assignee: Josh Boyer
QA Contact: Desktop QE
URL:
Whiteboard:
: 1717400 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-11-29 16:21 UTC by Kevin Howell
Modified: 2021-01-04 13:56 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2019-11-05 22:27:59 UTC
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Red Hat Bugzilla 1654126 0 unspecified CLOSED The 'dbus-python' distribution was not found and is required by subscription-manager 2021-02-22 00:41:40 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2019:3614 0 None None None 2019-11-05 22:28:00 UTC

Internal Links: 1654126

Description Kevin Howell 2018-11-29 16:21:18 UTC 
Description of problem: As seen in bug 1654126, if an application uses setuptools entrypoints and properly declares a dependency on dbus-python, then it fails to run when dbus-python is installed via RPM. The dbus-python package isn't picked up due to missing the egg metadata.

How reproducible: 100%

Steps to Reproduce: See bug 1654126

Actual results: setuptools entrypoints cannot locate dbus-python when installed via RPM.

Expected results: setuptools entrypoints can locate dbus-python when installed via RPM.

Additional info: We will workaround for now in subscription-manager by removing dbus-python from requires.txt manually, but it seems prudent to fix this anyways.
Comment 1 Till Maas 2019-05-07 09:39:39 UTC 
The bug is also present in RHEL 7.
Comment 2 Till Maas 2019-05-20 19:34:36 UTC 
This was fixed in Fedora Rawhide 3 months ago: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/dbus-python/c/7505b46ea4a52d8ac5cdee35c4725cc5bd808aba?branch=f30

This packaging bug is making it hard for users to install packages from PyPi that require dbus-python because pip3 does cannot recognize that the python3-dbus package provides dbus-python. Therefore it tries to compile  it from source making things unnecessary complicated:


pip3 install nmstate
WARNING: Running pip install with root privileges is generally not a good idea. Try `pip3 install --user` instead.
Collecting nmstate
  Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/7d/ce/a2d877e16ec7b1cc299f38a03e8546f6b5a521e18bbcc7b86ad31820375b/nmstate-0.0.6.tar.gz
Collecting dbus-python (from nmstate)
  Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/3f/e7/4edb582d1ffd5ac3c84188deea32e960b5c8c0fe1da56ce70224f85ce542/dbus-python-1.2.8.tar.gz
Requirement already satisfied: jsonschema in /usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from nmstate)
Requirement already satisfied: PyGObject in /usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages (from nmstate)
Requirement already satisfied: PyYAML in /usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages (from nmstate)
Requirement already satisfied: setuptools in /usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from nmstate)
Requirement already satisfied: six in /usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from nmstate)
Installing collected packages: dbus-python, nmstate
  Running setup.py install for dbus-python ... error
    Complete output from command /usr/bin/python3.6 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-dg0heacj/dbus-python/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-7wrw0qrs-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile:
    running install
    running build
    creating /tmp/pip-build-dg0heacj/dbus-python/build
    creating /tmp/pip-build-dg0heacj/dbus-python/build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.6
    checking whether make supports nested variables... no
    checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
    checking for gcc... no
    checking for cc... no
    checking for cl.exe... no
    configure: error: in `/tmp/pip-build-dg0heacj/dbus-python/build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.6':
    configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
    See `config.log' for more details
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
[...]
        raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd)
    subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['/tmp/pip-build-dg0heacj/dbus-python/configure', '--disable-maintainer-mode', 'PYTHON=/usr/bin/python3.6', '--prefix=/tmp/pip-build-dg0heacj/dbus-python/build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.6/prefix']' returned non-zero exit status 1.
Comment 3 Till Maas 2019-06-05 12:33:30 UTC 
*** Bug 1717400 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2019-11-05 22:27:59 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:3614
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