GitHub Actions failing due to pip error

[damithc]

The error:

Run pip install requests
error: externally-managed-environment
...

Example https://github.com/nus-cs2113-AY2425S1/ip-dashboard/actions/runs/11285488693/job/31388669590

[damithc]

https://github.com/nus-cs2113-AY2425S1/tp-dashboard/actions is affected but
https://github.com/nus-cs2103-AY2425S1/tp-dashboard/actions is not.
hmm.... 🤔

[gok99]

It looks like the breaking CI is using Ubuntu 24.04 instead of 22.04, which has configurations to prevent apt and pip from intefering with one another. Seems like the updated latest ubuntu runner isn't fully deployed.

We can probably pin the runner to ubuntu-22.04 instead of ubuntu-latest for now.

[sikai00]

Beyond pinning to ubuntu-22.04 as a temporary fix, we can also look into adding a step to use venv to resolve the root issue which was introduced in PEP 668.

Can take reference from the multiple fixes that other projects have done, e.g., fcitx/mozc@e8d25a2#diff-1ee5360cc67f8ec7ed8a3ca75252c859e3acded65ab5e6d4688bcb8585b3e7efR29

[gok99]

@damithc I've pinned publish-RepoSense to ubuntu-22.04 for the time being - could you try merging it?

@sikai00 This would be good to do, together with adding ubuntu-24.04 to our CI runners for the RepoSense repo. Could you create issues for these?

[damithc]

@damithc I've pinned publish-RepoSense to ubuntu-22.04 for the time being - could you try merging it?

Yup, that worked. Thanks @gok99 for the quick fix.