Remove costly python requirements on Raspberry Pi #7635
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Problem
Bootstrap takes up to 1 hour to boostrap on Raspberry Pi, largely due to
adding "pandas" which is expensive to build and doesn't have a linux
aarch64 wheel on pypi.
Change overview
Remove packages with no wheels from the requirements on
aarch64 to save time (pandas, gdbgui).
This switches the compiled requirements.txt to a "constraints.txt" which
is like a requirements file but only contains version constraints and
does not automatically install its contents. That way, we can specify
what version to use for packages on amd64 without forcing their
installation on the Pi. See pip help install for more details on this
feature.
This reduces initial Pi 4 Python bootstrap down to ~4m from ~50m.
Testing
source scripts/bootstrap.sh
on Raspberry Pi