@simonmichal I am unable to reproduce your experience and see no regression. The following works as expected: ```Dockerfile FROM cern/cc7-base:latest RUN yum update -y && \ yum install --nogpg -y \ cmake3 \ make \ krb5-devel \ libuuid-devel \ libxml2-devel \ openssl-devel \ systemd-devel \ zlib-devel \ devtoolset-7-gcc-c++ \ which \ python3-devel \ python3-setuptools \ git \ cppunit-devel && \ python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel ENV OFFENDING_COMMINT=65950acd7ab15dc91e31fdc4de089e14d474ecf9 RUN . /opt/rh/devtoolset-7/enable && \ git clone https://github.com/xrootd/xrootd && \ cd xrootd && \ git reset --hard ${OFFENDING_COMMINT} && \ git show HEAD && \ git config --global user.email "[log in to unmask]" && \ git config --global user.name "test test" && \ git tag -a v6.0.0 -m test && \ git tag && \ cp packaging/wheel/* . && \ ./publish.sh && \ python3 -m pip --verbose install dist/xrootd-*.tar.gz && \ python3 -m pip list ``` build with ```console $ docker build . -f docker/Dockerfile --tag xrootd/xrootd:debug-uninstall ``` and the following works ```console $ docker run --rm -ti xrootd/xrootd:debug-uninstall [root@eab92ce8483c /]# python3 -m pip list WARNING: No metadata found in /usr/local/lib64/python3.6/site-packages WARNING: No metadata found in /usr/local/lib64/python3.6/site-packages Package Version ------------------ ------- build 0.7.0 importlib-metadata 4.8.3 packaging 21.3 pep517 0.12.0 pip 21.3.1 pyparsing 3.0.7 setuptools 59.6.0 tomli 1.2.3 typing_extensions 4.0.1 wheel 0.37.1 xrootd 6.0.0 zipp 3.6.0 [root@eab92ce8483c /]# python3 -m pip show xrootd WARNING: No metadata found in /usr/local/lib64/python3.6/site-packages WARNING: No metadata found in /usr/local/lib64/python3.6/site-packages WARNING: No metadata found in /usr/local/lib64/python3.6/site-packages Name: xrootd Version: 6.0.0 Summary: Home-page: Author: Author-email: License: Location: /usr/local/lib64/python3.6/site-packages Requires: Required-by: [root@eab92ce8483c /]# python3 -c 'from XRootD import client; print(client.FileSystem("root://someserver:1094"))' <XRootD.client.filesystem.FileSystem object at 0x7f0facbfa2b0> [root@eab92ce8483c /]# python3 -m pip uninstall -y xrootd Found existing installation: xrootd 6.0.0 Uninstalling xrootd-6.0.0: Successfully uninstalled xrootd-6.0.0 WARNING: Running pip as the 'root' user can result in broken permissions and conflicting behaviour with the system package manager. It is recommended to use a virtual environment instead: https://pip.pypa.io/warnings/venv [root@eab92ce8483c /]# python3 -m pip show xrootd WARNING: Package(s) not found: xrootd [root@eab92ce8483c /]# ``` Can you please make sure that you are testing with a clean environment? -- Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/xrootd/xrootd/issues/1604#issuecomment-1022498193 You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Message ID: <[log in to unmask]> ######################################################################## Use REPLY-ALL to reply to list To unsubscribe from the XROOTD-DEV list, click the following link: https://listserv.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=XROOTD-DEV&A=1