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Adds ROCKETRIDE_TORCH_CPU env flag (default off). When set, resolves torch from the PyTorch CPU wheel index so the transitive nvidia-* / triton CUDA stack is not installed on CPU-only hosts. GPU users are unaffected.

Refs #1697

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    • Added opt-in support for resolving and installing PyTorch CPU-only packages.
    • Enable this mode with ROCKETRIDE_TORCH_CPU=1, true, or yes.
    • CPU package settings are applied consistently during dependency checks, previews, and installation.
    • Existing behavior remains unchanged unless the option is enabled.
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Adds ROCKETRIDE_TORCH_CPU env flag (default off). When set, resolves torch from the PyTorch CPU wheel index so the transitive nvidia-* / triton CUDA  stack is not installed on CPU-only hosts. GPU users are unaffected.

Refs rocketride-org#1697
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The engine installs the CUDA build of torch on every host because PyPI's
default torch wheel is the GPU build. On CPU-only hosts this pulls the full
nvidia-* / triton stack (~6.6 GB, per #1697), which cannot run there, and
in a fresh resolve it can also block the engine from starting.

This adds an opt-in flag, ROCKETRIDE_TORCH_CPU, that resolves torch from
the PyTorch CPU wheel index (https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu) so the
CUDA packages are never selected.

  • Default off: GPU and self-hosted users are unaffected.
  • When set (1 / true / yes), the CPU index is added as an extra index
    in the three uv command builders (_compile_constraints, _install_dry_run,
    _install_requirements_inner) via a single helper, _torch_cpu_index_args().

I chose an opt-in flag over hardcoding the CPU index deliberately: as #1697
notes, forcing CPU wheels would silently disable GPU inference for self-hosted
users, so the safe default is to leave GPU behaviour untouched and let CPU
hosts opt in. The change is additive and localized to the resolver.

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Bug fix (infra / dependency resolution).

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Found while self-hosting the engine on a CPU-only host (GitHub Codespaces,
m7i-class CPU), where the default resolve pulls the CUDA stack. Verified the
helper is inert when the flag is unset (returns [], no change to any uv
command) and that, when set, the CPU extra-index-url is appended to the

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depends.py adds opt-in PyTorch CPU dependency resolution through ROCKETRIDE_TORCH_CPU. It generates +cpu overrides, updates the constraints cache hash, and applies the CPU index and overrides during compilation, dry-run resolution, and installation.

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PyTorch CPU dependency resolution

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CPU mode and override generation
packages/server/engine-lib/rocketlib-python/lib/depends.py
Detects enabled ROCKETRIDE_TORCH_CPU values, identifies CUDA-pinned torch and torchvision requirements, generates matching +cpu overrides, and includes the mode in the constraints cache hash.
Dependency operation integration
packages/server/engine-lib/rocketlib-python/lib/depends.py
Applies the optional PyTorch CPU index and overrides during constraint compilation, dry-run resolution, and package installation. Updates related comments and messages to use hyphens.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 880f7

The opt-in CPU dependency path can fail to install on Darwin ARM64 hosts because it selects unavailable CPU wheel variants. The PR is not merge-ready until platform markers are preserved or the behavior is otherwise corrected.

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In `@packages/server/engine-lib/rocketlib-python/lib/depends.py`:
- Around line 334-350: The CPU-mode handling around _torch_cpu_index_args must
also switch the declared torch and torchvision requirements from CUDA-specific
versions to CPU-compatible versions and bind both packages to the PyTorch CPU
index when ROCKETRIDE_TORCH_CPU is enabled. Include the CPU-mode value in the
constraints-cache key so toggling the environment variable regenerates the
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Comment thread packages/server/engine-lib/rocketlib-python/lib/depends.py
Addresses review on rocketride-org#2003. Adding the CPU index alone left the exact +cu128
pins in place, so CPU mode had no effect. Now, when ROCKETRIDE_TORCH_CPU is
set, a uv --override forces torch/torchvision to their +cpu builds (versions
derived from the existing pins), and the flag is folded into the constraints
cache key so toggling it rebuilds. Default off, GPU users unaffected.

Refs rocketride-org#1697
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Good catch, thanks. You're right that adding the CPU index alone doesn't help while the requirements pin exact CUDA locals (torch==2.10.0+cu128 / torchvision==0.25.0+cu128 for non-Darwin), so ROCKETRIDE_TORCH_CPU had no real effect, and the constraints cache wasn't keyed on the flag.

I've addressed both points:

  • When the flag is set, a uv --override now forces torch/torchvision to their +cpu builds. The versions are derived from the existing pins rather than hardcoded, so it tracks future bumps. The override is applied in compile, dry-run, and install, alongside the CPU extra-index-url.
  • The ROCKETRIDE_TORCH_CPU value is folded into the constraints-cache key (_compute_hash), so toggling it regenerates constraints instead of reusing a mode-mismatched cache.

Still default-off, so GPU and existing installs are byte-for-byte unchanged. One honest caveat: I found and verified this on a CPU-only host but can't run a full engine-image rebuild myself, so a CI/maintainer run is the real end-to-end confirmation. Happy to adjust the approach if you'd prefer the pyproject-style [tool.uv.sources] route instead.

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In `@packages/server/engine-lib/rocketlib-python/lib/depends.py`:
- Around line 376-388: Update the CPU override construction in the
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pattern = re.compile(r'^\s*(torch|torchvision)\s*==\s*([0-9][0-9.]*)\+cu\w+', re.IGNORECASE)
overrides: list[str] = []
seen: set[str] = set()
for req_path in _find_requirement_files():
try:
with open(req_path, 'r', encoding='utf-8') as f:
for line in f:
match = pattern.match(line)
if match:
name = match.group(1).lower()
if name not in seen:
seen.add(name)
overrides.append(f'{name}=={match.group(2)}+cpu')

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Preserve platform markers in CPU overrides.

On Darwin ARM64, the source requirements select unlocalised torch and torchvision versions. This override replaces them with +cpu versions, but the CPU index does not publish matching Darwin ARM64 +cpu wheels. Preserve the source marker in each override so CPU overrides apply only to non-Darwin requirements.

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In `@packages/server/engine-lib/rocketlib-python/lib/depends.py` around lines 376
- 388, Update the CPU override construction in the requirement-scanning logic
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This and #1708 are the same fix in the same file, so it is probably worth deciding which one carries it rather than rebasing both.

My read: #1708 is the better base — it also fixes _write_excludes_file(), which today excludes plain onnxruntime on every non-Darwin host and would block the CPU build even after a CPU-only resolve, and it has a maintainer review thread on it. But the --override you added after CodeRabbit's finding is the part #1708 does not have and needs: packages/ai/src/ai/common/torch/requirements.txt pins torch==2.10.0+cu128 for non-Darwin, and an extra index cannot outrank an exact local-version pin. That diagnosis of yours is the load-bearing one.

If this stays the live PR instead, three things need updating:

  • The diff rewrites em dashes to hyphens on unrelated comment lines (_constraints_args, _ensure_setuptools, _install_dry_run, bootstrap). Worth dropping so the diff is only the resolver change.
  • Develop grew a first-class overrides mechanism after this branch (OVERRIDES_GLOBS, _get_overrides_path(), _override_args, from feat(ai,mcp): HTTP MCP server  #1880), so the torch +cpu overrides can go through the combined overrides file instead of a separate --override.
  • _compute_hash seeds the raw env value, so ROCKETRIDE_TORCH_CPU=1 and =true produce different constraint hashes for the same mode; feeding it _torch_cpu_enabled() normalizes that.

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Keep this as the vehicle for #1697: at head 880f743f it is the pair's only mechanism that strips CUDA against the in-tree pins: on linux/cp312, CPU mode gives torch==2.10.0+cpu / torchvision==0.25.0+cpu, zero nvidia-*, no triton. The derived overrides, not the extra index, beat the exact +cu128 pins; #1708's index-only approach cannot.

@KESHAV8087, that is a vehicle choice, not a merge verdict. Before merge:

  • Darwin breaks. The text-level pin scan (L376-L388) matches the non-Darwin +cu128 lines on macOS, writing marker-less +cpu overrides; no macOS +cpu wheels exist, so compilation fails and depends() — called at engine import (rocketlib/types.py:31) — raises: startup breaks on any Mac with the flag set. Gate the helpers off on Darwin; don't preserve source markers as the open suggestion proposes — verified, a marker-false override makes uv drop the requirement entirely: Darwin resolves empty, exit 0, torch gone.
  • Rebase. One of three conflicts against develop 9a5fc5c8 is pure em-dash→hyphen churn (including the user-visible 'Waiting — {detail}' string) hitting develop's satisfied-verdict cache: drop it, keep develop's side, then fold CPU mode into _verdict_key and bump _VERDICT_SCHEMA.
  • Hash the parsed boolean, not the raw env value (L738) — 1/true/yes/" 1 " are four cache keys.
  • Tests and an env-var doc under packages/server/docs/. CI has never run here — no Ruff, no build at either commit; ruff 0.16.5 (CI's pin) passes on the head blob locally, but that is not CI.

ONNX stays untouched by design (onnxruntime-gpu still resolves in CPU mode): fine for the torch contract, short of #1697's ask, which #1708's excludes flip covers if transferred. All CPU evidence here is resolver-level (uv 0.11.25); #1697's functional run of the four nodes still gates rollout.

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Please consider closing this — I think it implements the issue's original fix direction, which turns out to be the wrong layer.

I've posted a revised RCA on #1697. Short version: a pipeline running under --modelserver sends every inference to the model server, so it should install no torch at all — CPU wheels included. This PR changes which wheel resolves; what seems to be needed instead is stopping the node's depends() from running in proxy mode, plus deleting two unjustified import ai.common.torch lines in embedding_image/embedding_video. That work sits in nodes/, not depends.py.

Nothing wrong with the implementation — it does what #1697 asked. The issue's RCA was incomplete, which is what I've tried to correct.

Worth noting this also overlaps #1708, which came first and I've suggested closing for the same reason.

If an opt-in CPU index still has value on its own merits — a self-hosted CPU-only user doing genuinely local inference — that would be worth a separate issue, decoupled from the ALB problem.

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@KESHAV8087 Closing, same root cause miss as #1708. The --override mechanism works on Linux but the pin-scraping regex is blind to its platform marker, on Darwin with the flag set it hard-fails resolution entirely, reproduced directly. Develop already has a generic file-based overrides system (#1880) this hand-rolls with an env var and a regex.

@stepmikhaylov tagging, same cluster as #1708/#1181.

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