assemble_pip won't work for local_repositories

[TheButlah]

My current project is looking to use bazel-distribution to publish pip packages with bazel. We have several projects, which live as local workspaces in our git monorepo. However if I attempt to build the assemple_pip rule, invoked for example as bazel build @subproject1//my/package:assemble, this fails saying that args.files is None and therefore not iterable. However, if I cd into the folder containing the local workspace, and build as bazel build //my/package:assemble, things work as expected.

Presumably this is because of this part of the code:

for i in ctx.attr.target[PyInfo].transitive_sources.to_list():
    if 'pypi' not in i.path and 'external' not in i.path:
        python_source_files.append(i)

I think the fact that the source files are being stripped out when external is part of the path may be the issue. Does anyone have ideas on how to solve this?

[alexjpwalker]

@TheButlah Did you end up finding a suitable workaround for this issue?

[TheButlah]

No