btrfsutil Python package installation problem

[mhkarimi1383]

Hi we want to add btrfsutil as a dependency in our project using poetry (pyproject.toml) add getting

poetry add btrfsutil
Using version ^6.13 for btrfsutil

Updating dependencies
Resolving dependencies... (0.1s)

Package operations: 1 install, 0 updates, 0 removals

  • Installing btrfsutil (6.13): Failed

  ChefBuildError

  Backend subprocess exited when trying to invoke build_wheel
  
  running bdist_wheel
  running build
  running build_ext
  building 'btrfsutil' extension
  creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-cpython-311
  gcc -Wsign-compare -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -I/nix/store/fpv25ch2rim4w3chz1iwmsrvsv08qzzy-libxcrypt-4.4.36/include -fPIC -I.. -I/tmp/nix-shell-18144-0/tmp07s27ndm/.venv/include -I/nix/store/mh6gqjf1w1i6ln1a61psnz0gzdmwrspl-python3-3.11.8/include/python3.11 -c constants.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-cpython-311/constants.o
  constants.c:3:10: fatal error: btrfsutil.h: No such file or directory
      3 | #include <btrfsutil.h>
        |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
  compilation terminated.
  error: command '/nix/store/zd2viirgdm4ffgipgpslmysmlzs6fscb-gcc-wrapper-12.3.0/bin/gcc' failed with exit code 1
  

  at /nix/store/q98akaqr3mpr4l7gli1bi0phvx7r8h0y-python3.11-poetry-1.7.1/lib/python3.11/site-packages/poetry/installation/chef.py:164 in _prepare
      160│ 
      161│                 error = ChefBuildError("\n\n".join(message_parts))
      162│ 
      163│             if error is not None:
    → 164│                 raise error from None
      165│ 
      166│             return path
      167│ 
      168│     def _prepare_sdist(self, archive: Path, destination: Path | None = None) -> Path:

Note: This error originates from the build backend, and is likely not a problem with poetry but with btrfsutil (6.13) not supporting PEP 517 builds. You can verify this by running 'pip wheel --no-cache-dir --use-pep517 "btrfsutil (==6.13)"'.

[mhkarimi1383]

Fixed by installing btrfs-progs in my shell

[kdave]

The file btrfsutil.h is part of libbtrfsutil, so it would be probably ok to install just the devel package of that. Should this dependency be mentioned somewhere in the python package metdata?

[mhkarimi1383]

Some others are building/installing required things while installing the package, to fix the version problem for example, If distro version mismatch the version from pipy