Non-Root workaround for broken stdlibs

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Self-contained bootstrapping/updating of Python applications deployed through shared repositories

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Non-Root workaround for broken stdlibs #16

Closed ctheune closed 4 years ago

ctheune commented 4 years ago

Ok. This is going to be painful (for others to watch), but:

If we can't fix the system Python - and I don't want to compile my own - then here's what I'm going to try:

download the original cPython source packages from github, version specific to whatever python version we are running, extract it in /tmp
copy lib/venv, lib/... to ~/.appenv/py/lib
include that in the pythonpath

Hopefully any venvs we create will properly inherit this ... I'll try this out.

ctheune commented 4 years ago

Ok, including it in the pythonpath isn't sufficient. So it turns out that I will

create venv without pip
download original python source
copy distutils and pipenv over

We might want to cache this in the future and maybe even have a workaround if venv should be missing. But anyway. This allows non-root bootstrapping with a missing distutils/ensurepip for now.