Upgrade pip package in Docker when an older version is required by one component

Installation
1

Hi,
I am building a custom component to connect my HA instance to a DIY bluetooth low energy device I am developed.
For that, I use bluepy and require the latest version 1.3.0. When I set REQUIREMENTS to bluepy==1.3.0, the component does not get loaded and I get an error about configuration in HA.
When I only set REQUIREMENTS to bluepy without version, the component gets loaded but I end up in runtime errors as I use some functions that are only available in the 1.3.0 release.

I tried to upgrade (temporarily the package from within the docker container with pip install -U bluepy but this is what I get :

# pip3 install --upgrade bluepy
Collecting bluepy
  Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/27/91/6cfca10bee9862f93015413cf9e6a52c3081a71f1518963396a055128f8e/bluepy-1.3.0.tar.gz
Building wheels for collected packages: bluepy
  Building wheel for bluepy (setup.py) ... error
  Complete output from command /usr/local/bin/python -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-install-7144a_77/bluepy/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" bdist_wheel -d /tmp/pip-wheel-zgqsmxn2 --python-tag cp37:
  running bdist_wheel
  running build
  running build_py
  Working dir is /tmp/pip-install-7144a_77/bluepy
  execute make -C ./bluepy clean
  error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'make': 'make'
  
  ----------------------------------------
  Failed building wheel for bluepy
  Running setup.py clean for bluepy
Failed to build bluepy
Installing collected packages: bluepy
  Found existing installation: bluepy 1.1.4
    Uninstalling bluepy-1.1.4:
      Successfully uninstalled bluepy-1.1.4
  Running setup.py install for bluepy ... error
    Complete output from command /usr/local/bin/python -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-install-7144a_77/bluepy/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-record-kao38q8s/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile:
    running install
    running build
    running build_py
    Working dir is /tmp/pip-install-7144a_77/bluepy
    execute make -C ./bluepy clean
    error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'make': 'make'
    
    ----------------------------------------
  Rolling back uninstall of bluepy
  Moving to /usr/local/bin/blescan
   from /tmp/pip-uninstall-7r4d6a2m/blescan
  Moving to /usr/local/bin/sensortag
   from /tmp/pip-uninstall-7r4d6a2m/sensortag
  Moving to /usr/local/bin/thingy52
   from /tmp/pip-uninstall-7r4d6a2m/thingy52
  Moving to /usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/bluepy-1.1.4-py3.7.egg-info
   from /usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/~luepy-1.1.4-py3.7.egg-info
  Moving to /usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/bluepy/
   from /usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/~luepy
Command "/usr/local/bin/python -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-install-7144a_77/bluepy/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-record-kao38q8s/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-install-7144a_77/bluepy/

When looking at the github repo, I only found bluepy to be a requirements for miflora, mitemp, decora and another climate component, none of which I am using. Is there a way to force the upgrade of the pip package (even manually if necessary) ?

2

Not sure if you know how build docker packages but you can do that and just include older pip version during build

3

It looks to me like the module is trying to compile for your system and there is not compiler or build tools.

What OS are you running?

4

I have never build a docker image but I could have a go.
My assumption though was that the python packages were retrieve by Home-Assistant and are not really part of the docker image (I’m interested only on bluepy that is available through pip)

I’m running Raspbian on a Raspberry Pi 3 B. I use the raspberrypi3 special docker image so I would guess it contains the build tools.

5

I assume you are running Hassio which has its own HassOs, a minimal operating system.
There is also RPi images for Hassbian, but that does not use Docker.

It is possible to run Hassio on Raspbian or Raspbian Lite with just a little modification to the Hassio Linux install instructions. You could then install build-essential and get the tools you need,

6

This isn’t necessary.

7

Sorry if I wasn’t clear. I am not using hass.io. I installed Raspbian myself and just use docker directly with
homeassistant/raspberrypi3-homeassistant. I do not wish to use Hass.io as I might like to run other things on my Pi.

I could just install tools inside the docker container but then I would loose them on the next update and also it might not help HA installing the correct python packages at boot.