Issue with {%pip_install_plugins_gitlab%} on self-hosted GitLab

[fabas-mpcdf]

Hi!

We are trying to set up hermes with our GitLab instance, and we encountered several issues during hermes init

In step 5: Warning: CI File Parameter {%pip_install_plugins_gitlab%} was not set.

We went to gitlab/hermes-ci.yml and commented out the line containing this parameter. Other problems arose later during the process, and we suspect it has to do with this parameter.

For example in step 7:

 1753256044.229944:         hermes.init:      INFO | -- Step 7 of 7: Connect with git project --
 50 1753256044.230192:         hermes.init:      INFO | Unfortunately HERMES does not support automatic authorization with your GitLab installment.
 51 1753256044.230335:         hermes.init:      INFO | Go to your project's access tokens (https://gitlab.mpcdf.mpg.de/fnico/test-hermes/-/settings/access_tokens) and create a new token.
 52 1753256044.230471:         hermes.init:      INFO | It needs to have the 'developer' role and 'api' + 'write_repository' scope.
 53 1753256065.860824:         hermes.init:      INFO | Could not get project id for https://gitlab.mpcdf.mpg.de/fnico/test-hermes.
 54 1753256065.861523:         hermes.init:   WARNING | Something went wrong while setting up GitLab automatically.
 55 1753256065.861648:         hermes.init:   WARNING | You will have to do it manually instead.

Later on, another error arises during the deposit:

163 1753260877.094064:          hermes.cli:     ERROR | An error occurred during execution of deposit (Find details in './hermes.log')
164 1753260877.094219:          hermes.cli:     DEBUG | Original exception was: No valid auth token given for deposition platform

What are we missing here?

[sdruskat]

Thanks, @fabas-mpcdf, for opening this issue. @nheeb, could you look into this, please?

[zyzzyxdonta]

This should be fixed on the development branch. Can you please try to reinstall hermes? pip install git+https://github.com/softwarepub/hermes.git

[thunze]

I can confirm the stray {%pip_install_plugins_gitlab%} doesn't appear in hermes-ci.yml anymore when generated via HERMES installed from develop.

I'm guessing the other error is unrelated to that.