[Self-Hosted RTD] Issue creating VENV

[Daltz333]

I am aware that this is not a supported scenario, but any help is appreciated regardless.

My name is Dalton and currently developing a readthedocs docker image for streamlining self-hosting for the wpilibsuite organization. Following the installation steps through a standard ubuntu installation (on a separate machine running Ubuntu 18.04) seems to give a successful build, however my docker image seems to be failing with the below error message.

An additional note is if I log onto the docker image and run the command manually, it works just fine.

Attached is the full log from the docker output: https://hastebin.com/akahawusol.cs

Why are we self hosting? https://hastebin.com/upuxitited.coffeescript

[humitos]

Following the installation steps through a standard ubuntu

We moved away from that setup and we are using our own docker images now for development: https://docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/development/standards.html

You may find some help from reading that guide and checking out how we create the Dockerfile's among others.

[humitos]

Why are we self hosting? https://hastebin.com/upuxitited.coffeescript

Reading those reasons, I wouldn't recommend follow this path. We can talk about giving more resources to your project (in fact, we have bigger builders now). I think you will have more problems by maintaining your own instance, but that's up to you, of course. My 2 cents.

[deepshikhagandhi]

We have come across the same issue. Looks like there's an extra space introduced in that command due to d0ddcb6#diff-31f8391d8643c47c6caedf53930c0b7e

Reverting this back to site_packages = '--no-site-packages' fixes the problem.

[no-response]

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[Daltz333]

This issue is still present.

[humitos]

Hi @Daltz333! Unfortunately, we do not offer support on custom installations. We have a note in our docs about this: https://docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/open-source-philosophy.html#unsupported

[stsewd]

This is because the version of virtualenv, in production we use https://github.com/readthedocs/readthedocs-docker-images/blob/f8db06c9cf64c3473a524c08b547805288b81f71/Dockerfile#L117

But in the repo we are pinning to

readthedocs.org/requirements/pip.txt

Line 4 in a75907c

virtualenv==20.0.16

We should pin to the same version

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[Daltz333]

Not stale.

[DougCal]

Since PR #7330 fixes issue #7322, is this one fixed as well? It was suggested that issue #7322 is the same as this one.

[stsewd]

It should be fixed, but we still should use the same version as docker as outside docker.

[humitos]

I'm closing this issue since there is no action required from the core team. As I mentioned in my previous comment, unfortunately we do not offer support for self-hosted Read the Docs instances.