It's hard to package version 2 of aws-cli

[graywolf-at-work]

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• Service API : I want to do X using Y service, what should I do?
• CLI : passing arguments or cli configurations.
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Platform/OS/Hardware/Device
Archlinux, but this is platform-agnostic issue.

Describe the question
Currently it is really hard to track the aws-cli v2 for the purpose of packaging it. My steps basically are

git checkout TAG
pip install -r requirements.txt
pip install .

and that works fine until there is an update to botocore, since at that
point it will stop being possible to install previous tags. I would like you
to consider making the dev versions in botocore actual tags, so that the
installation will work even after you release new version.

The exact same thing happend yeasterday, there was new botocore released
but 2.0.20 was not (yet), so in that interval it was just not possible to install
it.

But my python-fu is not the strongest, maybe there are flags to pip that would
solve this?

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[kdaily]

Hi @graywolf-at-work, thanks for your comment.

I think that you are referring to this line in the requirements.txt file:

https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/blob/v2/requirements.txt#L6

This refers to the tagged v2 branch of botocore (https://github.com/boto/botocore/tree/v2), and installing the package will pull the most recent package from that branch. What you are requesting is that the requirement file here refers to a specific release of botocore instead of tracking the most recent.

Could you make that request on the botocore repository, please? That package will need to be released from the v2 branch in order to refer to a specific version in the requirements file.

[onitake]

@kdaily FWIW, we're facing this problem with the Debian package of awscli: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=970804

Since botocore v2 is breaking compatibility with botocore v1 (in addition to a lack of releases), I'd like to ask if it's possible to use awscli v2 with the old botocore? Does it require v2 specifically?