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Add --dry-run option to pip install #11096

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@sbidoul sbidoul commented May 7, 2022

This options simply prints what pip would install instead of actually installing.

The output is human readable and mimics what an actual pip install prints.
It is not intended to be parsed by tools: that will be added by the --report option which will produce a rich json output.

Towards #53 and #10771.

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My understanding from #53 was that the concensus is to put such functionality into a separate resolve command. Are you proposing that this be called install --dry-run instead?

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sbidoul commented May 8, 2022 •
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My understanding from #53 was that the concensus is to put such functionality into a separate resolve command. Are you proposing that this be called install --dry-run instead?

@pradyunsg It is not entirely clear to me there was a clear consensus in #53, which is a very long thread. And #10748 shows that other people understood it as an extension of pip download.

But yes I am proposing that instead of pip resolve, we allow the composition of 3 pip install options: --dry-run, --report and --ignore-installed to the same effect, and more. It is IMO easy to understand, relatively simple to implement, and a more versatile superset of what a new pip resolve command would do. See also #10771 which has more explanations and is testable today. See also my comments in #10748.

This PR is one of several I propose for ease of review (see the full plan in #10771 (comment)).

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sbidoul commented May 9, 2022

@pradyunsg to elaborate a little bit, I am not opposed to a pip resolve that would be some sort of alias to pip install --dry-run --ignore-installed --report, although I don't think myself it is necessary. If people want we can still do it after the "beta" period of the installation report. Also, I think we discussed elsewhere to have a pip lock when a lockfile format is standardized. But nevertheless the installation report remains useful for use cases such as "tell me what pip install did".

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sbidoul commented May 30, 2022

Thanks @uranusjr. Change applied.

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sbidoul commented May 30, 2022

Hm, pip install --dry-run -e ../localdir --use-deprecated=legacy-resolver fails with AssertionError: InstallRequirement {self} has no metadata directory and no wheel: can't make a distribution..

Not sure why there is no metadata directory in that case because it did log Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) ... done in that case.

I'd be inclined to say that some modern pip feature require the new resolver...

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sbidoul commented May 30, 2022

Hm, and now that I have fixed the assert to properly show the requirement in error, I notice the problem comes from an already installed requirement that is somehow returned by the legacy resolver. Weird, I'll need to dig into this.

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If it only happens on the legacy resolver (still need to make sure of this, of course), it’s probably OK to simply filter those out manually.

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sbidoul commented May 30, 2022

@uranusjr actually it looks like the legacy resolver retunrs already installed requirements, and they are filtered out later by resolver.get_installation_order.

So yeah, this discrepancy is annoying and I think I'll make --dry-run error out when used with the legacy resolver, because I don't think refactoring legacy resolver code paths is worthwhile at this point.

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sbidoul commented May 30, 2022

OTOH if we call get_installation_order when printing what would be installed it does the job even though it is not very nice. But we can drop that together with the legacy resolver so it is not a debt we'll need to carry for a long time hopefully.

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Code looks reasonable to me.

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sbidoul commented Jun 1, 2022 •
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Alright, it looks like this is not done done yet :/ I found out that get_installation_order can't be called twice because with the new resolver it modifies the result graph and the second call fails. And with the current approach we'd need to call it twice for the installation report.

So I'm considering to do to_install = resolver.get_installation_order() just after resolve() and before the build step. I'll need to check if that is safe, especially with the legacy resolver.

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sbidoul commented Jun 3, 2022

Oki, now with the last commit it should be good.

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Add wheel support to InstallRequirement.get_dist()
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Before it did support only requirements that had their
metadata prepared to a local directory.
WIth wheels that does not happen so we need to
handle that case too.

get_dist() is used by the metadata property of InstallRequirement,
which in turn is useful to obtain metadata
of the RequirementSet returned by the resolver.
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Add a --dry-run option to pip install
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Use metadata['name'] to get requirement name
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Co-authored-by: Tzu-ping Chung <uranusjr@gmail.com>
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Improve --dry-run with legacy resolver
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Add requirements_to_install to RequirementSet
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This property is necessary because the
legacy resolver returns requirements that
need not be installed.
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sbidoul commented Jun 24, 2022

If there are no more comments on this one I plan to merge on Sunday or so.

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sbidoul commented Jun 26, 2022

Thanks for the review @uranusjr !

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