[ARROW-16306] [CI] Nightly verify rc on ubuntu is failing due to setuptools scm unable to find version

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 8.0.0
• Component/s: Continuous Integration
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/31693
• Assignee: Raúl Cumplido
• Reporter: Raúl Cumplido
• Created: 25/Apr/22 10:07
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 11:43
• Resolved: 25/Apr/22 11:49

Description

These current jobs:

• verify-rc-source-python-linux-ubuntu-18.04-amd64:
• verify-rc-source-python-linux-ubuntu-20.04-amd64:

Are failing due to:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 607, in <module>
    setup(
  File "/tmp/arrow-HEAD.7Wo1N/venv-source/lib/python3.8/site-packages/setuptools/__init__.py", line 129, in setup
    return distutils.core.setup(**attrs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/distutils/core.py", line 108, in setup
    _setup_distribution = dist = klass(attrs)
  File "/tmp/arrow-HEAD.7Wo1N/venv-source/lib/python3.8/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 372, in __init__
    _Distribution.__init__(self, attrs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/distutils/dist.py", line 292, in __init__
    self.finalize_options()
  File "/tmp/arrow-HEAD.7Wo1N/venv-source/lib/python3.8/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 528, in finalize_options
    ep.load()(self, ep.name, value)
  File "/tmp/arrow-HEAD.7Wo1N/venv-source/lib/python3.8/site-packages/setuptools_scm/integration.py", line 75, in version_keyword
    _assign_version(dist, config)
  File "/tmp/arrow-HEAD.7Wo1N/venv-source/lib/python3.8/site-packages/setuptools_scm/integration.py", line 51, in _assign_version
    _version_missing(config)
  File "/tmp/arrow-HEAD.7Wo1N/venv-source/lib/python3.8/site-packages/setuptools_scm/__init__.py", line 106, in _version_missing
    raise LookupError(
LookupError: setuptools-scm was unable to detect version for /arrow.Make sure you're either building from a fully intact git repository or PyPI tarballs. Most other sources (such as GitHub's tarballs, a git checkout without the .git folder) don't contain the necessary metadata and will not work.For example, if you're using pip, instead of https://github.com/user/proj/archive/master.zip use git+https://github.com/user/proj.git#egg=proj
Failed to verify release candidate. See /tmp/arrow-HEAD.7Wo1N for details.
1
Error: `docker-compose --file /home/runner/work/crossbow/crossbow/arrow/docker-compose.yml run --rm -e VERIFY_VERSION= -e VERIFY_RC= -e TEST_DEFAULT=0 -e TEST_PYTHON=1 ubuntu-verify-rc` exited with a non-zero exit code 1, see the process log above.The docker-compose command was invoked with the following parameters:

This was fixed for the verify-conda-rc but the ubuntu ones have started failing.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #12981