add 12.8.1 cuda to the base matrix (#2426)

* add 12.8.1 cuda to the base matrix

* use nightly

* bump deepspeed and set no binary

* deepspeed binary fixes hopefully

* install deepspeed by itself

* multiline fix

* make sure ninja is installed

* try with reversion of packaging/setuptools/wheel install

* use license instead of license-file

* try rolling back packaging and setuptools versions

* comment out license for validation for now

* make sure packaging version is consistent

* more parity across tests and docker images for packaging/setuptools

pyproject.toml

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [build-system]
-requires = ["setuptools>=64", "wheel", "setuptools_scm>=8", "packaging>=24.2"]
+requires = ["setuptools>=64", "wheel", "setuptools_scm>=8", "packaging==23.2"]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ dynamic = ["version", "dependencies", "optional-dependencies"]
 description = "LLM Trainer"
 readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.10"
-license-files = ["LICENSE"]
+# license = "Apache-2.0"
 
 [project.scripts]
 axolotl = "axolotl.cli.main:main"