Incubator-superset: Building Superset fails with NotADirectoryError: [Errno 20] Not a directory: '/app/superset/static/assets/version_info.json

[sarithapodali]

Step 19/32 : COPY superset /app/superset
---> a15169a256dd
Step 20/32 : COPY setup.py MANIFEST.in README.md /app/
---> e68a6c753c5a
Step 21/32 : RUN cd /app && chown -R superset:superset * && pip install -e .
---> Running in fe0f965f40ca
Obtaining file:///app
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
command: /usr/local/bin/python -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/app/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/app/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' egg_info
cwd: /app/
Complete output (10 lines):
fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
-==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==-
VERSION: 0.999.0dev
GIT SHA:
-==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==-
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "/app/setup.py", line 57, in
with open(VERSION_INFO_FILE, "w") as version_file:
NotADirectoryError: [Errno 20] Not a directory: '/app/superset/static/assets/version_info.json'
----------------------------------------
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: python setup.py egg_info Check the logs for full command output.
ERROR: Service 'superset' failed to build: The command '/bin/sh -c cd /app && chown -R superset:superset * && pip install -e .' returned a non-zero code: 1

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[craig-rueda]

Hey @sarithapodali, what sha are you running? I recall this was an issue a few commits back, but has been fixed since.

[sarithapodali]

Hey @sarithapodali, what sha are you running? I recall this was an issue a few commits back, but has been fixed since.

@craig-rueda I pulled in the latest. git clone https://github.com/apache/incubator-superset/

[nytai]

@sarithapodali are you trying to build docker on windows?

[sarithapodali]

@nytai Yes. That's right. Is there a solution?

[mistercrunch]

Issue around symlinks?

[nytai]

@sarithapodali there's no official support for windows. The issue here is that there should be a symlink from superset/assets/ to superset/static/assets, however git doesn't create this symlink on windows.
more on this here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5917249/git-symlinks-in-windows

We probably should fix some of this and not rely on a symlink, but that probably won't get worked on for a while.

As a quick workaround you can probably create a symlink or just copy superset/assets to superset/static/assets.

[sarithapodali]

Thank you @nytai that works. But I run into different issues further.