major version bump of virtualenv (updated 2019-02-10) breaks multistage docker builds using pipenv

[ianlofs]

Issue description

Pipenv installs new version of virtualenv (20.0.1) when updated or installed for the first time.
The new version of virtualenv, which is a complete rewrite and does not have the same virtualenv directory structure as previous major release, appears to break python apps deployed using a multistage docker build process, ie.

FROM python:3.6 as build
# install any build dependencies using package manager
RUN pip install pipenv
RUN pipenv install
RUN python setup.py install
FROM python:3.6
COPY --from build <path_to_virtualenv_location> <path_to_location_in_final_step>
ENTRYPOINT ['<path_to_location_in_final_step/bin/<executable_name>'

Expected result

Running container should result in the executable running successfully.

Actual result

Executable fails with ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pkg_resources'

[ianlofs]

I also created an issue in the virtualenv project, #1560

[ghost]

What is the short term workaround? Is it possible to set the virtualenv version? Or add --seeder pip to some Pipfile property?

[frostming]

@dms-cat Sure, you can install as pip install "virtualenv<20.0.0" pipenv

[NMFR]

I also suffered from this, in my case i have the .venv folder in my project folder (via PIPENV_VENV_IN_PROJECT=1).

The virtual environment now depends on the ./.venv folder and the ./.local folder (./.venv symlinks some folder from ./.local).

If you copy the .local folder it should fix your problem.

[NMFR]

Sadly pipenv does not allow to version lock pip :(

[ianlofs]

What is the short term workaround? Is it possible to set the virtualenv version? Or add --seeder pip to some Pipfile property?

I got through it with the following in my Dockerfile

pip install pipenv
# override the virtualenv version that gets installed alongside pipenv
pip install -U virtualenv==16.7.9

[ntrepid8]

It seems like adding an environment variable to the Dockerfile like this reverts the new symlink behavior:

ENV VIRTUALENV_SEEDER=pip

When I use that it produced a virtual environment without any symlinks back to ~/.local.

[ntrepid8]

Looks like virtualenv 20.0.2 was just released and reverted the app-data behavior so using the pip seeder may not be required anymore:

• https://virtualenv.pypa.io/en/latest/changelog.html#v20-0-2-2020-02-11

[saikill]

We are still getting error with the latest version of virtualenv

Building wheels for collected packages: distlib
Building wheel for distlib (setup.py): started
Building wheel for distlib (setup.py): finished with status 'done'
Created wheel for distlib: filename=distlib-0.3.0-py3-none-any.whl size=340427 sha256=06ab30a179b43cbf2e3a63c7d92ab467e6d664bc7d142b889dad313cb875875f
Stored in directory: /tmp/.cache/pip/wheels/3d/85/00/c5766a5c95cf8683c50f1c142e3be944b6ffa7d4c9d86ac96d
Successfully built distlib
Installing collected packages: zipp, importlib-metadata, filelock, distlib, importlib-resources, appdirs, six, virtualenv, virtualenv-clone, certifi, pipenv
Successfully installed appdirs-1.4.3 certifi-2019.11.28 distlib-0.3.0 filelock-3.0.12 importlib-metadata-1.5.0 importlib-resources-1.0.2 pipenv-2018.11.26 six-1.14.0 virtualenv-20.0.2 virtualenv-clone-0.5.3 zipp-2.2.0
usage: virtualenv [--version] [--with-traceback] [-v | -q] [--discovery {builtin}] [-p py] [--creator {builtin,cpython3-posix,venv}] [--seeder {app-data,pip}] [--no-seed] [--activators comma_separated_list] [--clear]
[--system-site-packages] [--symlinks | --copies] [--download | --no-download] [--extra-search-dir d [d ...]] [--pip version] [--setuptools version] [--wheel version] [--no-pip] [--no-setuptools] [--no-wheel]
[--clear-app-data] [--symlink-app-data] [--prompt prompt] [-h]
dest
virtualenv: error: unrecognized arguments: --relocatable
Build step 'Execute shell' marked build as failure

[ianlofs]

This appears to be fixed with the latest version of virtualenv

[JeffinBao]

We are still getting error with the latest version of virtualenv

Building wheels for collected packages: distlib
Building wheel for distlib (setup.py): started
Building wheel for distlib (setup.py): finished with status 'done'
Created wheel for distlib: filename=distlib-0.3.0-py3-none-any.whl size=340427 sha256=06ab30a179b43cbf2e3a63c7d92ab467e6d664bc7d142b889dad313cb875875f
Stored in directory: /tmp/.cache/pip/wheels/3d/85/00/c5766a5c95cf8683c50f1c142e3be944b6ffa7d4c9d86ac96d
Successfully built distlib
Installing collected packages: zipp, importlib-metadata, filelock, distlib, importlib-resources, appdirs, six, virtualenv, virtualenv-clone, certifi, pipenv
Successfully installed appdirs-1.4.3 certifi-2019.11.28 distlib-0.3.0 filelock-3.0.12 importlib-metadata-1.5.0 importlib-resources-1.0.2 pipenv-2018.11.26 six-1.14.0 virtualenv-20.0.2 virtualenv-clone-0.5.3 zipp-2.2.0
usage: virtualenv [--version] [--with-traceback] [-v | -q] [--discovery {builtin}] [-p py] [--creator {builtin,cpython3-posix,venv}] [--seeder {app-data,pip}] [--no-seed] [--activators comma_separated_list] [--clear]
[--system-site-packages] [--symlinks | --copies] [--download | --no-download] [--extra-search-dir d [d ...]] [--pip version] [--setuptools version] [--wheel version] [--no-pip] [--no-setuptools] [--no-wheel]
[--clear-app-data] [--symlink-app-data] [--prompt prompt] [-h]
dest
virtualenv: error: unrecognized arguments: --relocatable
Build step 'Execute shell' marked build as failure

I experience the same issue. I roll back virtualenv version to pip install -U virtualenv==16.7.9 as mentioned by @ianlofs . My question is does latest virtualenv removed relocatable?