pipx installed pip-sync doesn't work with conda active env

[kyuwoo-choi]

Environment Versions

1. OS Type: linux
2. Python version: 3.10.14
3. pip version: 24.2
4. pip-tools version: 7.4.1

Steps to replicate

1. pip install xgboost
2. pip list | grep xgboost see xgboost 2.1.1 listed
3. pip-sync blank-requirements.txt tells "Everything up-to-date"

Expected result

removes the xgboost and nvidia-nccl-cu12 which is dep for xgboost.
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Actual result

manually installed pip package and it's dependency leave
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[AndydeCleyre]

I think your issue is that the pip-tools you're using is not installed in the same environment you're trying to modify, but it needs to be to work properly. Notice that in your pip list output pip-tools is absent. So the environment changed by the sync is a different one.

[kyuwoo-choi]

As you mentioned, it was an issue with the wrong environment.
I installed pip-tools globally with pipx, but running pip-sync didn't work in my active conda environment.
After running pip-sync with the --python-executable set to the conda environment's Python, it worked fine.

I did a quick search on the issues and thought pip-sync would work with the active Python environment, but it didn't.
Is this the expected behavior? I would like pip-sync to work with the active conda environment.

Thanks.

[kyuwoo-choi]

I changed title to reflect the issue right.