potiuk commented on a change in pull request #13439: URL: https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/13439#discussion_r551161427
########## File path: INSTALL ########## @@ -51,24 +51,35 @@ pip install . \ --constraint "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apache/airflow/constraints-master/constraints-3.6.txt"; -By default `pip install` in Airflow 2.0 installs only the provider packages that are needed by the extras, -however if you want to install all providers (which was default behaviour in 1.10.*) -you can do it by setting environment variable INSTALL_PROVIDERS_FROM_SOURCES to `true`. +By default `pip install` in Airflow 2.0 installs only the provider packages that are needed by the extras and +install them as packages from PyPI rather than from local sources: -INSTALL_PROVIDERS_FROM_SOURCES="true" pip install . \ +pip install . \ --constraint "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apache/airflow/constraints-master/constraints-3.6.txt"; -You can also install airflow in "editable mode" (with -e) flag and then provider packages will be -available, because they are used directly from the airflow sources: - +You can also install airflow in "editable mode" (with -e) flag and then provider packages are +available directly from the sources (and the provider packages installed from PyPI are uninstalled in +order to avoid having providers in two places. This is useful if you want to develop providers: pip install -e . \ --constraint "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apache/airflow/constraints-master/constraints-3.6.txt"; +You can als skip installing provider packages from PyPI by setting INSTALL_PROVIDERS_FROM_SOURCE to "true". +In this case Airflow will be installed in non-editable mode with all providers installed from the sources. +Additionally provider.yaml files will also be copied to providers folders which will make the providers Review comment: Good point with the description of provider.yaml file. I added a chapter about it in the 'Provider Packages' documentation and referred to it. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected]
