fix(ascend): preserve inference base contract

Author: hooray03

docker/ascend/Dockerfile.inference

@@ -33,12 +33,21 @@ ENV FLAGSCALE_VLLM_PLUGIN_REF=${VLLM_PLUGIN_FL_REF}
 COPY tools/install /workspace/tools/install
 COPY requirements /workspace/requirements
 
+# The immutable vendor base contains unrelated package metadata findings.
+# Installing the pinned plugin must not introduce any additional conflicts.
+RUN python -m pip check 2>&1 | sort > /tmp/pip-check.before || true
+
 RUN chmod +x /workspace/tools/install/*.sh \
         /workspace/tools/install/utils/*.sh \
         /workspace/tools/install/ascend/*.sh && \
     /workspace/tools/install/install.sh --platform ascend --task inference \
-        --pkg-mgr pip --no-system --no-dev --no-base && \
-    python -m pip check && \
+        --pkg-mgr pip --no-system --no-dev --no-base
+
+RUN python -m pip check 2>&1 | sort > /tmp/pip-check.after || true
+
+RUN diff -u /tmp/pip-check.before /tmp/pip-check.after && \
+    cat /tmp/pip-check.after && \
+    rm -f /tmp/pip-check.before /tmp/pip-check.after && \
     rm -rf /opt/flagscale/deps /workspace/tools /workspace/requirements
 
 WORKDIR /workspace

requirements/ascend/inference.txt

@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@
 # install_inference.sh installs the matching vllm-plugin-FL from a fixed commit
 # without replacing those core runtime packages.
 
-# Resolve metadata conflicts in the candidate base without changing its
-# torch/torch-npu/vLLM stack.
-pandas==2.2.3
-opencv-python-headless==4.11.0.86
+# No additional Python packages are installed here. The immutable base owns
+# the complete torch/torch-npu/vLLM/FlagGems runtime; replacing any of those
+# transitive dependencies would invalidate the vendor-tested stack.

tools/install/ascend/install_inference.sh

@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ import importlib.metadata as metadata
 
 vllm_version = metadata.version("vllm")
 plugin_version = metadata.version("vllm-plugin-fl")
-flaggems_version = metadata.version("flaggems")
+flaggems_version = metadata.version("flag_gems")
 platform_plugins = {
     entry.name: entry.value
     for entry in metadata.entry_points(group="vllm.platform_plugins")