From 601074a8e86729848cce5207a389a35a660ecec3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Federico Capoano <f.capoano@openwisp.io>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2021 12:49:18 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] [fix] Disabled pep517 on Ubuntu 18.04 #263

Without this we get the following error on Ubuntu 18:
AttributeError: module 'setuptools.build_meta' has no attribute '__legacy__'

Fixes #263
---
 tasks/pip.yml | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tasks/pip.yml b/tasks/pip.yml
index 00f50ea2..f1892b1c 100644
--- a/tasks/pip.yml
+++ b/tasks/pip.yml
@@ -140,6 +140,11 @@
   pip:
     name: "{{ openwisp2_extra_python_packages }}"
     state: latest
+    # fixes bug #263, remove when support for Ubuntu 18.04 is dropped
+    extra_args: |
+      {% if ansible_distribution == 'Ubuntu' and ansible_distribution_version is version_compare('18.04', 'le') %}
+        --no-use-pep517
+      {% endif %}
     virtualenv: "{{ virtualenv_path }}"
     virtualenv_python: "{{ openwisp2_python }}"
     virtualenv_site_packages: true