Add package 'nvidia-riva-client' into the RHAI pipeline onboarding collection.

The package requires builder repository onboarding before it can be added to the RHAI pipeline. This ticket is blocked by the builder onboarding ticket.

Summary

Executive Summary: nvidia-riva-client Packaging Analysis

nvidia-riva-client is a pure-Python gRPC client library for NVIDIA's Riva Speech AI platform, required as a hard dependency of Garak. The package produces a noarch wheel (

py3-none-any

) with no native compilation required. However, the build process has a moderate complexity step: it compiles Protocol Buffer (

.proto

) definitions from a git submodule (

nvidia-riva/common

) into Python code using

grpc_tools.protoc

. A source build from the GitHub repository at tag

r2.16.0

has been verified successful, producing a wheel that matches the PyPI-distributed artifact. The package is licensed under MIT, fully compatible with Red Hat redistribution.

CRITICAL BLOCKER: The JIRA ticket AIPCC-10994 references version 0.16.0, which does not exist on PyPI. The correct version is 2.16.0, as confirmed by Garak's

pyproject.toml

which pins

nvidia-riva-client==2.16.0

. This version discrepancy must be corrected before proceeding. Additionally, no sdist is published to PyPI for any version — the source must come from the GitHub repository at

https://github.com/nvidia-riva/python-clients

(tag

r2.16.0

).

Version 2.16.0 is advantageous for RPM packaging because its runtime dependencies (

setuptools>=65

,

grpcio-tools

) use relaxed version constraints, unlike later versions (2.17.0+) which aggressively pin exact versions and introduce ecosystem conflicts. The build requires

grpcio-tools

as a build dependency and

git

to initialize the

common

submodule containing the

.proto

files. For RPM packaging, the submodule content should be bundled into the source tarball to avoid network access during build.

Key Actions

• Immediate: Update JIRA ticket AIPCC-10994 to reference version 2.16.0 instead of 0.16.0
• Source: Use

  https://github.com/nvidia-riva/python-clients/archive/refs/tags/r2.16.0.tar.gz

  as Source0, and bundle the

  common

  submodule content as Source1

• BuildRequires:

  python3-grpcio-tools

  ,

  python3-setuptools

• Requires:

  python3-setuptools >= 65

  ,

  python3-grpcio-tools

• Architecture:

  noarch

  — no platform-specific build steps needed despite the ticket specifying x86_64