[PATCH 001/114] build-appliance-image: do not inherit setuptools

Alexander Kanavin
2025-12-22T20:07:54Z

The recipe is using pip, and that doesn't require setuptools. I believe it
was a mix-up from https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11022
where the initial idea was to use easy_install from setuptools.

A particular reason to drop the setuptools inherit is that setuptools brings in
python3native class which sets PYTHONNOUSERSITE = "1" to avoid $HOME contamination.
This is causing errors with pip 25.3, which rejects --user option in presence
of that environment variable. This recipe redirects $HOME before running pip,
so contamination is avoided.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Kanavin <alex@linutronix.de>
---
meta/recipes-core/images/build-appliance-image_15.0.0.bb | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/images/build-appliance-image_15.0.0.bb b/meta/recipes-core/images/build-appliance-image_15.0.0.bb
index 406cd2abee..5a7db7bfb9 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/images/build-appliance-image_15.0.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/images/build-appliance-image_15.0.0.bb
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ APPEND += "rootfstype=ext4 quiet"
DEPENDS = "zip-native python3-pip-native"
IMAGE_FSTYPES = "wic.vmdk wic.vhd wic.vhdx"

-inherit core-image setuptools3 features_check
+inherit core-image features_check

REQUIRED_DISTRO_FEATURES += "xattr"

--
2.47.3