[BUG][TST] Fix thin client package test (#2497)

## Description of changes

*Summarize the changes made by this PR.*
 - Improvements & Bug fixes
	 - Fix thin client package bug introduced by #2466 by @tazarov 
- Do this as opposed to #2490 - as it is cleaner and more explicit.
Making it less brittle to changes.
 - New functionality
	 - ..

## Test plan
*How are these changes tested?*

- [ ] Tests pass locally with `pytest` for python, `yarn test` for js,
`cargo test` for rust

## Documentation Changes
*Are all docstrings for user-facing APIs updated if required? Do we need
to make documentation changes in the [docs
repository](https://github.com/chroma-core/docs)?*

.github/workflows/release-chromadb.yml

@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build Client
         run: python -m build
       - name: Test Client Package
-        run: bin/test-package.sh dist/*.tar.gz
+        run: bin/test-package/test-package.sh dist/*.tar.gz
       - name: Upload as artifact
         uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
         with:
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build Client
         run: ./clients/python/build_python_thin_client.sh
       - name: Test Client Package
-        run: bin/test-package.sh dist/*.tar.gz
+        run: bin/test-package/test-thin-client-package.sh dist/*.tar.gz
       - name: Install setuptools_scm
         run: python -m pip install setuptools_scm
       - name: Publish to Test PyPI

bin/test-package/install.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+pip_install_from_tarball() {
+    local tarball=$(readlink -f $1)
+    if [ -f "$tarball" ]; then
+        echo "Testing PIP package from tarball: $tarball"
+    else
+        echo "Could not find PIP package: $tarball"
+        return 1
+    fi
+
+    # Create temporary project dir
+    local dir=$(mktemp -d)
+
+    echo "Building python project dir at $dir ..."
+
+    cd $dir
+
+    python3 -m venv venv
+
+    source venv/bin/activate
+
+    pip install $tarball
+}

bin/test-package/test-package.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# Sanity check to ensure package is installed correctly
+
+source ./install.sh
+
+pip_install_from_tarball $1
+
+python -c "import chromadb; api = chromadb.Client(); print(api.heartbeat())"

bin/test-package/test-thin-client-package.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# Sanity check to ensure package is installed correctly
+
+source ./install.sh
+
+pip_install_from_tarball $1
+
+python -c "import chromadb; print(chromadb.__version__)"