Fix Rails package version calculation again.

[arvados.git] / tools / arvbox / lib / arvbox / docker / service / sdk / run-service

diff --git a/tools/arvbox/lib/arvbox/docker/service/sdk/run-service b/tools/arvbox/lib/arvbox/docker/service/sdk/run-service
index 29bd040d6573cc91126ea7604285ec79322c2e12..da6db3653cd9b48b3bea1570aa5006e173c6b319 100755 (executable)
--- a/tools/arvbox/lib/arvbox/docker/service/sdk/run-service
+++ b/tools/arvbox/lib/arvbox/docker/service/sdk/run-service
@@ -18,6 +18,18 @@ cd /usr/src/arvados/sdk/cli
 run_bundler --binstubs=$PWD/binstubs
 ln -sf /usr/src/arvados/sdk/cli/binstubs/arv /usr/local/bin/arv
 
+# Need to install the upstream version of pip because the python-pip package
+# shipped with Debian 9 is patched to change behavior in a way that breaks our
+# use case.
+# See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=876145
+# When a non-root user attempts to install system packages, it makes the
+# --ignore-installed flag the default (and there is no way to turn it off),
+# this has the effect of making it very hard to share dependencies shared among
+# multiple packages, because it will blindly install the latest version of each
+# dependency requested by each package, even if a compatible package version is
+# already installed.
+pip_install pip==9.0.3
+
 pip_install wheel
 
 cd /usr/src/arvados/sdk/python