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Replaces pip install --no-cache-dir /packages with uv pip install.

Not uv sync

That was the first instinct and it is wrong here. uv sync makes an environment match a
lockfile; this layer installs on top of the base image's /opt/venv, which already holds
extralit-server. Sync would uninstall every server package absent from a lockfile — one this
repo does not even have.

--python /opt/venv/bin/python names the target venv explicitly rather than relying on
VIRTUAL_ENV, which only base images built after Extralit/extralit#249 set. That keeps this
working against an older EXTRALIT_SERVER_IMAGE.

Also

  • uv and pyproject.toml arrive as bind mounts, so neither ends up in a shipped layer and
    the rm -rf /packages cleanup is gone.
  • UV_COMPILE_BYTECODE matches the base image, so a worker's first import does not pay to
    compile these too.
  • chmod +x folds into COPY --chmod.

Verification

Built the whole image against a locally built server base, not a dry run:

  • 4 packages installed — honcho, pymupdf, pymupdf4llm, and the shim. uv resolved against
    what the base already provides.
  • The server's own rq=2.11.0 / redis=8.1.0 / httpx are untouched; no uninstalls.
  • uv and /packages absent from the result; start.sh and Procfile still executable.
  • Inherited retrieval payloads still load (lance extension, liteparse, tessdata, chonkie) and
    extralit_server imports.

Follow-up

Once this merges, the base image can drop --seed from uv venv and stop shipping pip
entirely. The ordering is strict — a pip-less base would break any hf-space image still built
from pip — so that change waits on this one.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Chores
    • Improved container image builds by using the project’s configured Python environment and dependency metadata.
    • Enabled bytecode compilation for installed dependencies to improve runtime efficiency.
    • Streamlined file handling and permissions during image creation.
    • Improved application output visibility in containers by enabling unbuffered Python output.

`pip install /packages` is replaced with `uv pip install`. Deliberately not `uv sync`, which
was the first instinct: sync makes the environment *match* a lockfile, and this layer installs
on top of the base image's /opt/venv, which already holds extralit-server. Sync would uninstall
every server package absent from a lockfile this repo does not even have.

`--python /opt/venv/bin/python` names the target venv rather than relying on VIRTUAL_ENV, which
only recent base images set, so this keeps working against an older `EXTRALIT_SERVER_IMAGE`.

uv and the pyproject arrive as bind mounts, so neither is left in a shipped layer and the
`rm -rf /packages` cleanup is no longer needed. UV_COMPILE_BYTECODE matches the base image, so
a worker's first import does not pay to compile these too. `chmod +x` folds into COPY --chmod.

Verified by building the whole image against a locally built server base: 4 packages installed
(honcho, pymupdf, pymupdf4llm, and the shim), the server's own rq/redis/httpx untouched, uv and
/packages absent from the result, and the inherited retrieval payloads still load.
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The Dockerfile now installs Python dependencies with uv into /opt/venv, uses mounted build inputs and cache storage, sets executable permissions during file copy, and enables unbuffered Python output.

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uv dependency installation and file permissions
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start.sh and Procfile are copied with mode 0755. Dependency installation uses uv pip install with bytecode compilation, copy link mode, mounted uv and pyproject.toml, and a cache mount. Cleanup removes only wget and gnupg packages.
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PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1 is set so crash tracebacks reach Space logs through honcho's non-TTY pipes.

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to bc04d

The image build now uses uv, but the current command may treat the mounted package directory as a project instead of installing the declared dependencies, which can make clean image builds fail. Merge should wait until the command explicitly installs /packages/pyproject.toml as a requirements file.

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In `@Dockerfile`:
- Around line 58-60: Update the uv pip install invocation to install
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Two patterns borrowed from astral-sh/uv-docker-example's multistage.Dockerfile.

PYTHONUNBUFFERED is the one that earns its place. honcho gives each process a pipe rather than
a tty, so Python block-buffers into it, and a Space's logs are the only way to see a crash.
Demonstrated in the built image: a worker that prints a line and is then SIGKILLed — the shape
an OOM takes here — loses that line entirely without this, and keeps it with.

UV_PYTHON_DOWNLOADS=0 changes nothing today, and the commit should not pretend otherwise: with
an explicit `--python`, uv reports the same error either way. It guards a seam this PR
deliberately created — `--python` is spelled out so the build tolerates a base image predating
VIRTUAL_ENV, and if someone later drops the flag in favour of that variable against an older
base, uv would be free to fetch its own interpreter and install into something that is not the
server's venv. Cheaper to forbid than to debug.

Deliberately not borrowed: UV_NO_DEV, verified to be a no-op here because `uv pip install <path>`
does not install PEP 735 dependency-groups (confirmed: ruff/pytest/rq-dashboard absent from a
clean install). The example's builder-stage layout and `uv sync --locked` do not transfer either
— this image layers into an inherited venv rather than building one, and its separate no-uv
stage is already achieved by bind-mounting uv.

Rebuilt against a local server base: still 4 packages, deps import, smoke 4/4, and
UV_PYTHON_DOWNLOADS correctly does not leak into the shipped image's environment.
Addresses CodeRabbit on PR #12. `uv pip install /packages` treated the mount as a local project
and built this repo as a package, but `packages = ["extralit_ocr"]` is not under the mount —
only `pyproject.toml` is.

It did not fail, so the reviewer's stated risk is not the reason to change it. The real one is
what it produced: an `extralit-hf-space` dist containing eight dist-info files and no code at
all, whose build succeeded only because hatchling tolerated a packages directory that was not
there. `extralit_ocr` is imported from /home/extralit via the working directory honcho runs in,
never from site-packages, so that dist was never load-bearing.

`-r /packages/pyproject.toml` installs the dependencies and nothing else. Rebuilt against a local
server base: 3 packages instead of 4, the phantom dist gone, extralit_ocr still imports from
/home/extralit, server and inherited retrieval payloads untouched.
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