doc: work around circular dependency

Manually install gitpython, because it must be available to generate the requirements.txt file, which is before the venv is created. Issue for this is here: canonical/sphinx-docs-starter-pack#197 Signed-off-by: Ruth Fuchss <[email protected]>
ru-fu · Mar 13, 2024 · 5db8be4 · 5db8be4
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diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
@@ -131,6 +131,7 @@ update-metadata: build
 .PHONY: doc-setup
 doc-setup: client
 	@echo "Setting up documentation build environment"
+	pip3 install gitpython pyyaml
 	cd doc; LOCAL_SPHINX_BUILD=True python3 .sphinx/build_requirements.py
 	python3 -m venv doc/.sphinx/venv
 	. $(SPHINXENV) ; pip install --require-virtualenv --upgrade -r doc/.sphinx/requirements.txt --log doc/.sphinx/venv/pip_install.log

diff --git a/doc/.readthedocs.yaml b/doc/.readthedocs.yaml
@@ -12,8 +12,9 @@ build:
     golang: "1.21"
     python: "3.11"
   jobs:
-    post_checkout:
-      - cd doc; python3 .sphinx/build_requirements.py
+    pre_install:
+      - pip install gitpython pyyaml
+      - cd doc && python3 .sphinx/build_requirements.py
     pre_build:
       - go build -ldflags "-s -w" -o trimpath -o lxc.bin ./lxc
     post_build:

diff --git a/doc/custom_conf.py b/doc/custom_conf.py
@@ -295,8 +295,11 @@
 # Generate man pages content
 
 os.makedirs('.sphinx/deps/manpages', exist_ok=True)
-subprocess.run([lxc, 'manpage', '.sphinx/deps/manpages/', '--format=md'],
-               check=True)
+if (os.path.isfile(lxc)):
+    subprocess.run([lxc, 'manpage', '.sphinx/deps/manpages/', '--format=md'],
+                   check=True)
+else:
+    print('No man page content generated.')
 
 # Preprocess man pages content