fix(docker): force pixi environment materialization and pin pixi - #376
fix(docker): force pixi environment materialization and pin pixi#376manzuoni-astera wants to merge 3 commits into
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Every input to this image is pinned except the tool that builds it: the base image and the checkpoints are digests, CI's setup-pixi is v0.73.0, and the Dockerfile piped an unpinned install.sh. So two builds of the same commit could use different pixi versions, which is a bad property to have at the best of times and a worse one while the build is failing because pixi reports a successful install and leaves an empty prefix. The guard from diff-use#368 now prints what pixi actually left behind before it exits: the prefix listing, its conda-meta bookkeeping, and where pixi thinks it is installing. The empty install does not reproduce off this builder. Same manifest, same lock, same pixi, linux/amd64, cold and warm rattler cache: all five environments install correctly. The build log is the only place the cause can come from.
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Tracking the failure itself in #377. |
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Pull request overview
This PR improves Docker image build reproducibility and debuggability by pinning the Pixi version used during image construction and expanding the “empty environment” guard to emit actionable diagnostics before failing the build. This fits the codebase’s emphasis on deterministic, digest-pinned container builds and helps root-cause a currently non-reproducible builder-only failure mode.
Changes:
- Pin Pixi to
v0.73.0during Docker builds instead of using an unpinned installer default. - Emit
pixi --version/pixi infoin the build log prior to environment installation. - Enhance the empty-environment guard to print prefix and Pixi state diagnostics before exiting.
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| ARG PIXI_VERSION=v0.73.0 | ||
| RUN curl -fsSL https://pixi.sh/install.sh | PIXI_VERSION="${PIXI_VERSION}" bash |
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In `@Dockerfile`:
- Around line 179-187: Update the “where pixi is installing to” diagnostics in
the Dockerfile to include the environment dir field alongside the existing
environments and prefix-location information. Extend the pixi info filter to
match “environment dir” without removing the current environments match, or use
the relevant unfiltered pixi info output.
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| echo "--- what pixi left behind ---"; \ | ||
| ls -la "/app/.pixi/envs/${env}" 2>&1 | head -20; \ | ||
| echo "--- prefix bookkeeping (conda-meta) ---"; \ | ||
| ls -A "/app/.pixi/envs/${env}/conda-meta" 2>&1 | head -10; \ | ||
| head -c 400 "/app/.pixi/envs/${env}/conda-meta/pixi" 2>&1; echo; \ | ||
| echo "--- environments pixi thinks exist ---"; \ | ||
| ls -A /app/.pixi/envs 2>&1 | head; \ | ||
| echo "--- where pixi is installing to ---"; \ | ||
| pixi info 2>&1 | grep -iE "cache dir|environments|manifest|version" | head; \ |
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#!/bin/sh
set -eu
printf '%s\n' '--- Dockerfile context ---'
nl -ba Dockerfile | sed -n '165,192p'
printf '%s\n' '--- Pixi references ---'
rg -n -C 3 'pixi|0\.73\.0|environment dir|environments' Dockerfile .github 2>/dev/null | head -160 || true
printf '%s\n' '--- Pixi v0.73.0 info source references (if available locally) ---'
git ls-files | rg '(^|/)(pixi|.*pixi.*)$' | head -80 || trueRepository: diff-use/sampleworks
Length of output: 9794
🌐 Web query:
Pixi v0.73.0 "Environment dir:" "pixi info"
💡 Result:
The pixi info command displays technical details about your Pixi installation, including the location of the environment directory. When you run pixi info, it reports the Environment dir under the Global section of its output [1][2][3]. This path typically defaults to ~/.pixi/envs on Linux and macOS [4][3], or the equivalent path in your user profile on Windows (e.g., C:\Users<Username>.pixi\envs) [1][2]. For standard project-specific environments, Pixi stores them by default in a.pixi/envs/ folder located directly within your current workspace root [5][6]. The Environment dir reported by pixi info specifically refers to the location used for global environments (installed via pixi global) [7][1], rather than the local project environments [7]. You can modify the location of environments created for global installations by setting the PIXI_HOME environment variable [7].
Citations:
- 1: pixi ignoring run constraints on virtual packages prefix-dev/pixi#6323
- 2: If the
pixi-global.tomlmanifest doesn't existpixihangs prefix-dev/pixi#6193 - 3: [DOC] Outdated items in Python tutorial prefix-dev/pixi#3033
- 4:
pixi shelldoes not activate environment prefix-dev/pixi#3055 - 5: https://prefix-dev-pixi.mintlify.app/concepts/environments
- 6: https://prefix.dev/blog/introducing_multi_env_pixi
- 7: https://prefix-dev.github.io/pixi/v0.66.0/reference/pixi_configuration/
🏁 Script executed:
#!/bin/sh
set -eu
tmp="$(mktemp)"
trap 'rm -f "$tmp"' EXIT
curl -fsSL 'https://api.github.com/repos/prefix-dev/pixi/git/trees/v0.73.0?recursive=1' > "$tmp"
printf '%s\n' '--- candidate info sources ---'
grep -o '"path":[^,]*' "$tmp" | grep -i 'info\|environment\|global' | head -80 || true
printf '%s\n' '--- source matches in v0.73.0 tree ---'
for path in src/cli/info.rs src/cli/mod.rs src/cli/global.rs; do
printf '%s\n' "--- $path ---"
curl -fsSL "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/prefix-dev/pixi/v0.73.0/$path" 2>/dev/null \
| grep -n -i -C 4 'environment dir\|environments\|global' | head -120 || true
doneRepository: diff-use/sampleworks
Length of output: 209
🌐 Web query:
site:github.com/prefix-dev/pixi/tree/v0.73.0 "Environment dir"
💡 Result:
The search found references to “Environment dir” in Pixi output, but not directly within the v0.73.0 tree. The value refers to Pixi’s global environment directory, typically:
~/.pixi/envs
For example, Pixi reports Environment dir: /home/username/.pixi/envs. [1]
🌐 Web query:
site:github.com/prefix-dev/pixi/issues "Environment dir:" "pixi info"
💡 Result:
The pixi info command provides a summary of your current pixi environment and system configuration [1][2]. In the output of pixi info, the term Environment dir typically refers to the location where global pixi environments are stored [1][3][4]. For example, this is often set to a directory like.pixi/envs within your user home folder (e.g., ~/.pixi/envs on Unix-like systems or C:\Users<Username>.pixi\envs on Windows) [1][3][2]. If you are looking for the location of the environment associated with a specific project, this is generally located within that project's directory, specifically under.pixi/envs/ [3][5]. Note that project-specific environment paths are often displayed under the Environments section of the pixi info output if you are currently inside a pixi project [3][2].
Citations:
- 1: pixi ignoring run constraints on virtual packages prefix-dev/pixi#6323
- 2: [DOC] Outdated items in Python tutorial prefix-dev/pixi#3033
- 3: PyPI mapping only works for Conda-Forge prefix-dev/pixi#6019
- 4: If the
pixi-global.tomlmanifest doesn't existpixihangs prefix-dev/pixi#6193 - 5: Add pixi "basic idea" in documentation prefix-dev/pixi#3383
🌐 Web query:
Pixi 0.73.0 pixi info output Environment dir project environment
💡 Result:
In Pixi version 0.73.0, the "pixi info" command provides detailed information about your system, workspace, and environments [1][2][3]. Regarding the environment directory, "pixi info" outputs this information in two distinct ways: 1. Global Information: The command displays a global "Environment dir," which refers to the directory where global environments are stored on your machine [4][5]. 2. Per-Environment Information: For your specific project, the output includes a "Prefix location" (sometimes referred to as the environment directory path) for each defined environment [5]. By default, Pixi stores these within the.pixi/envs/ directory of your workspace [6][7]. If you run "pixi info" with the --json flag, you can programmatically access these paths [8][9]. The JSON output will typically include a "prefix" field for each environment, providing the full absolute path to that specific environment's directory [4][5]. Additionally, using the --extended flag will include the size of these directories in the output [1][3][10][5].
Citations:
- 1: https://pixi.prefix.dev/v0.63.1/reference/cli/pixi/info/
- 2: https://github.com/prefix-dev/pixi/releases/tag/v0.73.0
- 3: https://pixi.prefix.dev/latest/reference/cli/pixi/info/
- 4: https://github.com/prefix-dev/pixi/blob/dac71154/crates/pixi_cli/src/info.rs
- 5: https://mintlify.wiki/prefix-dev/pixi/commands/info
- 6: https://pixi.prefix.dev/latest/workspace/environment/
- 7: https://mintlify.wiki/prefix-dev/pixi/concepts/environments
- 8: https://pixi.prefix.dev/v0.67.2/advanced/explain_info_command/
- 9: https://pixi.prefix.dev/dev/advanced/explain_info_command/
- 10: https://prefix-dev.github.io/pixi/v0.18.0/cli/
Include both environment paths in the diagnostics.
pixi info reports the global path as Environment dir: and project prefixes under Environments with Prefix location. Add environment dir to the filter without removing environments, or print the relevant pixi info output without filtering.
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In `@Dockerfile` around lines 179 - 187, Update the “where pixi is installing to”
diagnostics in the Dockerfile to include the environment dir field alongside the
existing environments and prefix-location information. Extend the pixi info
filter to match “environment dir” without removing the current environments
match, or use the relevant unfiltered pixi info output.
The empty-environment install is specific to diffuse-sh-builder. The same step, from the same base image with the same cache mounts and pixi 0.76.2, installs all five environments correctly on astera-sh-builder with both a cold and a warm cache (Astera-org/docker-images#25), and does the same on a laptop. Cache mounts live in the builder's own state. They survive --no-cache, a fresh checkout and a new builder container, so nothing in this repository could get the build off them. Giving them an explicit id can: BuildKit treats a new id as a new directory, so the next build starts from empty caches without anyone having to prune that host.
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Fixes #377.
Summary
The image build has failed on every run since 12 August because
pixi install --frozenreports success without running a package transaction. All five environments finish in under a second and/app/.pixi/envs/<env>/bin/pythondoes not exist. The guard from #368 correctly stopped those empty environments from being published.This stops relying on
installdeciding the prefix is stale. It uses Pixi's supportedreinstalloperation to force every locked package to be materialized, then starts each environment's Python before the image can be published.Changes
pixi reinstall -e <env> --frozen --no-config.--no-configremoves hidden system/user Pixi configuration as an input.reinstallbypasses the up-to-date path that produced the false successful installs, so this fix does not depend on cache rotation happening to repair builder state.Full validation
The complete candidate
publicimage built successfully on astera-sh-builder without a push: https://github.com/Astera-org/docker-images/actions/runs/31830168103That run used this PR branch and the real Dockerfile end to end: the digest-pinned CUDA base, authenticated digest-pinned checkpoint image, all checkpoint COPY and inventory checks, all five forced reinstalls, interpreter checks, source cleanup, runtime scripts, and final public stage. Every environment executed Python 3.12.13. The full build completed in 19 minutes.
A separate stress run deleted and rebuilt every prefix twice in one BuildKit step, first with an empty package cache and then with it warm: https://github.com/Astera-org/docker-images/actions/runs/31827709692
Also validated locally:
docker build --platform linux/amd64 --target source-check ...reinstallrecreates a deleted Linux prefix and starts its interpreter.git diff --checkpasses.All twelve repository checks and CodeRabbit are green on the final commit. The first post-merge run on
diffuse-sh-builderis now a publish confirmation rather than the first full build test.Rollout
No coordination is required. The changed RUN instruction invalidates the bad environment layer. The build will be slower than the sub-second broken path because it now performs the required package transactions. Once the image publishes, the actl sampleworks digest should be reconciled so the SBGrid shell hooks from #362 reach users.