Pepper no longer respecting --out flag about pepper HOT 5 OPEN

Hi,

Thanks for the problem report. The --out option relies on an installed copy of salt to provide the outputters. Can you confirm what version of salt you have installed? Could you please include the output from salt --versions-report?

Thanks,

Barney

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Also encountering this issue. Might this be due to OneDir?

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FWIW I used a virtualenv to work around this (and installed a separate copy of Salt in it), whatever mechanism pip uses to generate an executable doesn't appear to work in relenv. Example state file:

pkg_python3-virtualenv:
  pkg.installed:
    - name: python3-virtualenv

virtualenv_/opt/pepper:
  virtualenv.managed:
    - name: /opt/pepper
    - user: root
    - pip_upgrade: True
    - pip_pkgs:
        - salt-pepper
        - salt
    - require:
        - pkg_python3-virtualenv

file_symlink_/usr/local/bin/pepper:
  file.symlink:
    - name: /usr/local/bin/pepper
    - target: /opt/pepper/bin/pepper

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According to @s0undt3ch, salt-pip should install the pepper script in /opt/saltstack/salt/extras-3.10/bin (it is not), so I've filed a bug in the salt repo: saltstack/salt#64662

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I believe this issue has to do with OneDir. The --output flag is only used to reach into Salt's outputters / renderers. It's likely masked since most installs of Pepper already have Salt installed. As OneDir migrations occur and the Salt modules are no longer available globally the issue will come up more often.

It's a bit annoying that the current solutions are:

1. Install Pepper in the Salt directory with salt-pip (Ew).
2. Install the entirety of Salt back into a global (or virtualenv) location /just/ for the outputters (Ew).

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