[CI][Python] Windows wheel docker rebuild fails installing python-manager-25.0.msix

[raulcd]

Describe the bug, including details regarding any error messages, version, and platform.

If we try to rebuild our current underlying docker images for Windows it fails when installing python-manager due to failed installation of msix An error occurred because a user was logged off:

Step 6/21 : RUN   $pymanager_url = 'https://www.python.org/ftp/python/pymanager/python-manager-25.0.msix';   Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $pymanager_url -OutFile 'C:\Windows\pymanager.msix';   Add-AppxPackage C:\Windows\pymanager.msix
 ---> Running in 07eae1569865
Add-AppxPackage : Deployment failed with HRESULT: 0x80073D19, An error 
occurred because a user was logged off.
error 0x8007007E: Failed to load the extension DLL due to the following error: 
The specified module could not be found.
.
NOTE: For additional information, look for [ActivityId] 
d63b9998-c570-0003-5c78-b283d38adc01 in the Event Log or use the command line 
Get-AppPackageLog -ActivityID d63b9998-c570-0003-5c78-b283d38adc01
At line:1 char:241
+ ... C:\Windows\pymanager.msix'; Add-AppxPackage C:\Windows\pymanager.msix
+                                 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (C:\Windows\pymanager.msix:String) 
    [Add-AppxPackage], Exception
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : DeploymentError,Microsoft.Windows.Appx.PackageMa 
   nager.Commands.AddAppxPackageCommand

Component(s)

Continuous Integration, Python

[pitrou]

@zooba Do you have an idea what might be happening here?

[zooba]

Guessing Windows containers have some weird lack of support for MSIX, which is pretty annoying.

I'm guessing you want it for the install functionality more than the search/launch functionality? Can you run py install ... --target=<dir> outside of the container and then mount/copy in the directory with runtimes in it? You'll need the full path to python.exe to run inside the container, but it should work pretty obviously. (Or you can py install ... --download=<dir> and then copy the .zip files in and extract them in the container - same idea and result.)

Alternatively, you can probably install the install manager MSI here, as it doesn't rely on there being a "current" user (which is why most regular users need admin to run it, but in this case that should be automatic). msiexec /i <path to MSI> is probably just going to run without issue.

[raulcd]

Thanks @zooba ! I did use the MSI installer instead of the MSIX on the following PR, which fixes the installation:

• GH-48947 [CI][Python] Install pymanager.msi instead of pymanager.msix to fix docker rebuild on Windows wheels #48948

I had to adapt other minor things as the version of python-manager is different and seems to have changed.

[zooba]

I had to adapt other minor things as the version of python-manager is different and seems to have changed.

Looks like you're on the right options now, and the previous ones must have been for a different tool. We never had --variant or --version flags for installation - it's always just been a list of the version tags you want to install (e.g. py install 3 3-arm64 3.14t 3.14-32 3.14-dev is a valid command that will install up to five runtimes in one go).

[raulcd]

Issue resolved by pull request 48948
#48948