in our 17.09 instance that box gets populated, so I was hoping it was connected to the failed toolshed installations in the 18.05 instance
Marius van den Beek
@mvdbeek
no
just gotta find some time to dig into this
jhl667
@jhl667
well, my main goal in figuring out this issue with toolshed installations was to provide a dev environment on our cluster so we could start pushing our work to the toolshed. I've spent too much time on this though, so I'll try to revert back to a previous version, appreciate the help
jhl667
@jhl667
@mvdbeek Ok, so I had completely given up, then went back and re-scoured for the umpteenth time the galaxydev mailing list. I found the thread between you and PB talking about not being able to find hg. I must've ignored this the first time around since it is utilizing the virtualenv method, whereas I have switched to using conda for framework deps. So, all I did was add the path to the galaxy_1805 conda env directly to the galaxyuser PATH variable and it works fine. Wow, I'm broken, time for a drink.
Marius van den Beek
@mvdbeek
well, glad it works, but that doesn't really fit the issues we had been discussing. Also that approach will probably have other issues
jhl667
@jhl667
well the issue I originally talked about was that I tried to install via toolshed and it immediately went to failed status
then we started looking at cross-origin issues
Marius van den Beek
@mvdbeek
huh ?
I thought it'd just sit there forever
well OK, that sort of makes sense then, but putting conda on PATH is probably still not a good idea
jhl667
@jhl667
no, the gui showed immediate failure, and the log would just spin off prepare_for_install requests every 3 sec
Marius van den Beek
@mvdbeek
yeah, jumped to conclusions there
jhl667
@jhl667
yea, I agree with you on PATH not being a great idea, what would be your suggestion?
Marius van den Beek
@mvdbeek
put galaxy's virtualenv path on the PATH
jhl667
@jhl667
I don't use a virtualenv
I use conda to manage all of that
Marius van den Beek
@mvdbeek
that is also not a good idea
jhl667
@jhl667
it works quite well for me since otherwise I need to install two virtualenv's
Marius van den Beek
@mvdbeek
right, except for the mercurial issue that would've been avoided, plus X
I mean OK, if it works it works
jhl667
@jhl667
I only tried it after reading about it in the docs, but if you suggest it's not a good idea, I can go back to double virtualenv
Marius van den Beek
@mvdbeek
I don't know, if it's just for dev it's fine
_
jhl667
@jhl667
I guess I'm trying to figure out some of the reasons you're wary of conda for this purpose
Marius van den Beek
@mvdbeek
but you're not getting the wheels we're testing with, and I don't think that the exact dependency versions match either (case in point mercurial wasn't installed)