Pip 9.0.1+ removes the --use-wheel flag

[thenoid]

Description of Issue/Question

Later versions of pip default to using wheels and the --use-wheel flag has been removed. If a virtualenv.manged has the use_wheel: True pip will error out. But this flag is still needed to get older versions to use wheels.

Setup

{{ somepath }}/venv/:
virtualenv.managed:
- system_site_packages: False
- requirements: {{ somepath }}/requirements.txt
- require:
- file: {{ somepath }}/requirements.txt
- pkg: python-pip
- pkg: python-virtualenv

Steps to Reproduce Issue

[INFO    ] Executing command ['/somepath/venv/bin/pip', 'install', '--requirement', '/somepath/requirements.txt', '--use-wheel'] in directory '/home/ubuntu'
[ERROR   ] Command '['/somepath/venv/bin/pip', 'install', '--requirement', '/somepath/requirements.txt', '--use-wheel']' failed with return code: 2
[ERROR   ] stderr:
Usage:
  pip install [options] <requirement specifier> [package-index-options] ...
  pip install [options] -r <requirements file> [package-index-options] ...
  pip install [options] [-e] <vcs project url> ...
  pip install [options] [-e] <local project path> ...
  pip install [options] <archive url/path> ...

no such option: --use-wheel
[ERROR   ] retcode: 2

Versions Report

Salt Version:
           Salt: 2017.7.2

Dependency Versions:
           cffi: Not Installed
       cherrypy: Not Installed
       dateutil: 2.6.1
      docker-py: Not Installed
          gitdb: Not Installed
      gitpython: Not Installed
          ioflo: Not Installed
         Jinja2: 2.7.2
        libgit2: Not Installed
        libnacl: Not Installed
       M2Crypto: Not Installed
           Mako: Not Installed
   msgpack-pure: Not Installed
 msgpack-python: 0.4.6
   mysql-python: Not Installed
      pycparser: Not Installed
       pycrypto: 2.6.1
   pycryptodome: Not Installed
         pygit2: Not Installed
         Python: 2.7.6 (default, Nov 23 2017, 15:49:48)
   python-gnupg: Not Installed
         PyYAML: 3.10
          PyZMQ: 14.4.0
           RAET: Not Installed
          smmap: Not Installed
        timelib: Not Installed
        Tornado: 4.2.1
            ZMQ: 4.0.5

System Versions:
           dist: Ubuntu 14.04 trusty
         locale: UTF-8
        machine: x86_64
        release: 3.13.0-143-generic
         system: Linux
        version: Ubuntu 14.04 trusty

minions is running on 16.04 instead of 14.04

[blarghmatey]

The same is true for the complementary no_use_wheel parameter. There also appears to be no option to pass arbitrary parameters to the pip command that would allow for bypassing this situation without overriding the entire module with custom code.