Cannot install curtin requirement without raised privileges

[Joseph Borg]

The curtin requirement has to be installed with raised privileges (thus cannot be confined to a virtual environment).

See:

    running install_data
    creating /usr/share/doc/curtin
    error: could not create '/usr/share/doc/curtin': Permission denied

This has to be installed globally to develop MaaS.

[Joseph Borg (joeborg)]

I've created this branch, removing the data_files that are placed in restricted places.

[Joseph Borg (joeborg)]

https://code.launchpad.net/~joeborg/curtin/noroot

[Ryan Harper (raharper)]

Is this a python venv setup? How do I produce the error you're seeing ?

Looking at the branch, we may find another way for the docs to be installed, however, the helpers are scripts used during curtin installations which cannot be dropped from setup; they're needed for curtin to function. The python code of curtin is separated into different packages, but after we've run the setup.py.

curtin (/usr/bin/curtin)
curtin-common (helper scripts)
python3-curtin (all of the python code)

[Joseph Borg (joeborg)]

Hey Ryan,

Yes, within a venv, all you need to do is try and pip install the curtin requirement from the requirements.txt:

$ pip install bzr+lp:curtin#egg=curtin

It's fails when the setup.py tries to move files into /usr (which I removed in my branch). Perhaps this is a bug for curtin rather than maas?