I have a small python flask app on a CentOS-7 VM that runs in docker, along with an nginx reverse proxy. The requirements.txt pulls in several external utilities using git+ssh such as:
git+ssh://path-to-our-repo/some-utility.git
I had to make a change to the utility, so I cloned it locally, and I need the app to use my local version. Say the cloned and modified utility is in a local directory:
/var/work/some-utility
In the requirements.txt I changed the entry to:
git+file:///var/work/some-utility
But when I try to run the app with
sudo docker-compose up
I get the error message
Invalid requirement: 'git+file:///var/work/some-utility'
it looks like a path. Does it exist ?
How can I get it to use my local copy of "some-utility" ?
I also tried:
git+file:///var/work/some-utility#egg=someutility
but that produced the same error.
I looked at PIP install from local git repository.
This is related to this question:
I suppose most people would say why not just check in a development branch of some-utility to the corporate git repo, but in my case I do not have privileges for that.
Or maybe my problem is related to docker, and I need to map the some-utility folder into the docker container, and then use that path? I am a docker noob.
--- Edit ---
Thank you larsks for your answer. I tried to add the some-utility folder to the docker-compose.yml:
volumes:
- ./some-utility:/usr/local/some-utility
and then changed the requirements.txt to
git+file:///usr/local/some-utility
but our local git repo just went down for maintenance, so I will have to wait a bit for it to come back up to try this.
=== Edit 2 ===
After I made the above changes, I get the following error when running docker-compose when it tries to build my endpoint app:
Cloning file:///usr/local/some-utility to /tmp/pip-yj9xxtae-build
fatal: '/usr/local/some-utility' does not appear to be a git repository
But the /usr/local/some-utility folder does contain the cloned some-utility repo, and I can go there and run git status.
