From 3f50cbf91cf18e913b2547745dc19b87f79724b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: clsferguson <48876201+clsferguson@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2025 09:12:45 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] fix(docker): skip system package upgrades to avoid Debian
 conflicts

Remove pip/setuptools/wheel upgrade to prevent "Cannot uninstall wheel,
RECORD file not found" error when attempting to upgrade system packages
installed via apt.

Ubuntu 24.04 CUDA images include system-managed Python packages that lack
pip RECORD files, causing upgrade failures. Since the pre-installed versions
are sufficient for our dependencies, we skip upgrading them and focus on
installing only the required application packages.

This approach:
- Avoids Debian package management conflicts
- Reduces Docker build complexity
- Maintains functionality while improving reliability
- Eliminates pip uninstall errors for system packages

Resolves error: "Cannot uninstall wheel 0.42.0, RECORD file not found"
---
 Dockerfile | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 1db6c57c5..d529ee55d 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -47,8 +47,8 @@ WORKDIR /app/ComfyUI
 COPY requirements.txt ./
 
 # Core Python deps (torch CUDA 12.8, ComfyUI reqs), media/NVML libs
-RUN python -m pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel \
- && python -m pip install torch torchvision torchaudio --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu128 \
+# Skip upgrading system pip/setuptools/wheel to avoid Debian package conflicts
+RUN python -m pip install torch torchvision torchaudio --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu128 \
  && python -m pip install triton \
  && python -m pip install -r requirements.txt \
  && python -m pip install imageio-ffmpeg "av>=14.2" nvidia-ml-py