tools: patman cannot find aiohttp module

[Tony Dinh]

On Mon, Aug 25, 2025 at 12:02 PM Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2025 at 11:49:35AM -0700, Tony Dinh wrote:
>
> > Hi Tom,
> >
> > I've just done a git pull on the master branch. And then ran patman
> > and got this error.
> >
> > ./tools/patman/patman  -c1 -s2 send -n
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "/usr/src/u-boot-marvell/./tools/patman/patman", line 21, in <module>
> >     from patman import control
> >   File "/usr/src/u-boot-marvell/tools/patman/../patman/control.py",
> > line 24, in <module>
> >     from patman import cseries
> >   File "/usr/src/u-boot-marvell/tools/patman/../patman/cseries.py",
> > line 19, in <module>
> >     from patman import cser_helper
> >   File "/usr/src/u-boot-marvell/tools/patman/../patman/cser_helper.py",
> > line 18, in <module>
> >     import aiohttp
> > ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'aiohttp'
> >
> > I'm on Debian 12.11 and have Python 3.11.2. Is there something I might
> > be missing?
>
> Ideally you should be using a virtualenv or whatever is recommended on
> Debian 12 and then pip (or pipx?) install -r
> tools/patman/requirements.txt

Strange! I did not have to do anything extra like that before. I
always thought u-boot did that automatically. Also, I've just tested
it on u-boot-2025.07-rc5 on another u-boot git clone (on the same
system), and patman ran without this problem.

I'll dig some more, but if you have any idea please let me know.

Thanks,
Tony

>
> --
> Tom