Pin pip to 25.2 while setting up control machine env

[AmitPhulera]

We do not pin pip and pip-tools in our CI and control env setup. Recently all the newer PRs started failing the CI checks on Install dependency step with the following error -

Successfully installed build-1.3.0 click-8.3.0 packaging-25.0 pip-tools-7.5.1 pyproject_hooks-1.2.0 tomli-2.3.0 wheel-0.45.1
WARNING: Package(s) not found: ansible
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.10.19/x64/bin/pip-sync", line 7, in <module>
    sys.exit(cli())
  File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.10.19/x64/lib/python3.10/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1462, in __call__
    return self.main(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.10.19/x64/lib/python3.10/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1383, in main
    rv = self.invoke(ctx)
  File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.10.19/x64/lib/python3.10/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1246, in invoke
    return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params)
  File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.10.19/x64/lib/python3.10/site-packages/click/core.py", line 814, in invoke
    return callback(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.10.19/x64/lib/python3.10/site-packages/piptools/scripts/sync.py", line 116, in cli
    merged_requirements = sync.merge(requirements, ignore_conflicts=force)
  File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.10.19/x64/lib/python3.10/site-packages/piptools/sync.py", line 102, in merge
    for ireq in requirements:
  File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.10.19/x64/lib/python3.10/site-packages/piptools/_compat/pip_compat.py", line 115, in parse_requirements
    install_req = copy_install_requirement(install_req)
  File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.10.19/x64/lib/python3.10/site-packages/piptools/utils.py", line 503, in copy_install_requirement
    "use_pep517": template.use_pep517,
AttributeError: 'InstallRequirement' object has no attribute 'use_pep517'

The error is coming because of pip-tools 7.5.1 not compatible with pip 25.3 - jazzband/pip-tools#2252

We are pinning pip to 25.2 until this is fixed.

[gherceg]

Looks good to me, but curious to hear if Daniel has other ideas here.

[gherceg]

Was this change necessary?

[AmitPhulera]

Not necessary. Since it runs in non-interactive mode, I added --quiet parameter.

[millerdev]

Seems like a reasonable workaround until the issue is fixed. @AmitPhulera are you planning to actively monitor for a fix, or just let this be until the next time someone is working on pip or pip-tools or something related?

[AmitPhulera]

Looks like this is no longer required - jazzband/pip-tools#2253 is merged but a new version is not launched yet on pypi.
I will keep the PR open and wait for a new version to be released on pypi. If this becomes a blocker we can temporarily merge it and revert when there is a new pip-tools version available.

[AmitPhulera]

This is no longer required pip-tools have released the fix. Closing the PR.