Latest versions of packages not available via pip

Description:

I’ve run into problems a few times now across a number of (similar) repos where the latest versions of packages are available locally and in locally built docker containers, but fail when run inside of an actions job. I have helper scripts that keep my requirements.txt files up to date, but when I use them I end up having to make multiple rounds of bumping specific packages back down a version (or two) to use things available in actions.

E.g. most recent encounter https://github.com/octodns/octodns-route53/pull/2

• https://github.com/octodns/octodns-route53/runs/4777277388?check_suite_focus=true
• https://github.com/octodns/octodns-route53/runs/4777323220?check_suite_focus=true

Digging into the first one:

ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement importlib-metadata==4.10.0 (from versions: 0.0, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6, 0.7, 0.8, 0.9, 0.10, 0.11, 0.12, 0.13, 0.14, 0.15, 0.16, 0.17, 0.18, 0.19, 0.20, 0.21, 0.22, 0.23, 1.0.0, 1.1.0, 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3, 1.2.0, 1.3.0, 1.4.0, 1.5.0, 1.5.1, 1.5.2, 1.6.0, 1.6.1, 1.7.0, 2.0.0, 2.1.0, 2.1.1, 2.1.2, 3.0.0, 3.1.0, 3.1.1, 3.2.0, 3.3.0, 3.4.0, 3.5.0, 3.6.0, 3.7.0, 3.7.1, 3.7.2, 3.7.3, 3.8.0, 3.8.1, 3.8.2, 3.9.0, 3.9.1, 3.10.0, 3.10.1, 4.0.0, 4.0.1, 4.1.0, 4.2.0, 4.3.0, 4.3.1, 4.4.0, 4.5.0, 4.6.0, 4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.6.3, 4.6.4, 4.7.0, 4.7.1, 4.8.0, 4.8.1, 4.8.2, 4.8.3)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for importlib-metadata==4.10.0
Error: Process completed with exit code 1.

importlib-metadata cut 2 releases in mid-December, one on the 16th the other on 19th, https://pypi.org/project/importlib-metadata/#history. They’re both available locally & in docker containers, but not showing up when things run in actions.

I’ve dug around in the action and don’t see anything obvious that would lead to this problem. I’m also not sure if the issue is with the setup-python action or something awry in the underlying ubuntu-latest image, but this seems like the place to start.

I’ve been running into this for the past couple weeks, but thought I’d give it some time to see if it’s just something temorary, which it doesn’t appear to be.

Action version:

actions/setup-python@v2

Platform:

• Ubuntu
• macOS
• Windows

Runner type:

• Hosted
• Self-hosted

Tools version:

I’m seeing it with python-version: [3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9]

Repro steps:

First two failures in https://github.com/octodns/octodns-route53/pull/2, e.g. https://github.com/octodns/octodns-route53/pull/2/commits/3b663301fad1d8e444da2b39adf73eb492fd8ada

Expected behavior:

Packages that show up on pypi and are available locally work within the actions context.

Actual behavior:

Things appear to be stale, perhaps pulling from a mirror that’s not up to date?

[ross]

importlib-metadata 4.10.0 does not support EOL Python 3.6, see the “Requires: Python >=3.7” at:

Ah. I hadn’t noticed that it was 3.6 only failing, I guess maybe it was failing early and stopping the others from succeeding so I didn’t catch it only being a problem with 3.6.

Since it’s date has passed, https://devguide.python.org/devcycle/#end-of-life-branches I’ll just remove it from my versions matrix.

[nikita-bykov]

Hello @ross, thanks for report! We’ll look at your issue.