On Jul 30, 2014 3:36 PM, "Clark Boylan" <cboy...@sapwetik.org> wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 30, 2014, at 03:23 PM, Jeremy Stanley wrote: > > On 2014-07-30 13:21:10 -0700 (-0700), Joe Gordon wrote: > > > While forcing people to move to a newer version of libvirt is > > > doable on most environments, do we want to do that now? What is > > > the benefit of doing so? > > [...] > > > > The only dog I have in this fight is that using the split-out > > libvirt-python on PyPI means we finally get to run Nova unit tests > > in virtualenvs which aren't built with system-site-packages enabled. > > It's been a long-running headache which I'd like to see eradicated > > everywhere we can. I understand though if we have to go about it > > more slowly, I'm just excited to see it finally within our grasp. > > -- > > Jeremy Stanley > > > We aren't quite forcing people to move to newer versions. Only those > installing nova test-requirements need newer libvirt. This does not > include people using eg devstack. I think it is reasonable to expect > people testing tip of nova master to have a reasonably newish test bed > to test it (its not like the Infra team moves at a really fast pace :) > ).
Based on http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2014-July/041457.html this patch is breaking people, which is the basis for my concerns. Perhaps we should get some further details from Salvatore. > > Avoiding system site packages in virtualenvs is a huge win particularly > for consistency of test results. It avoids pollution of site packages > that can happen differently across test machines. This particular type > of inconsistency has been the cause of the previously mentioned > headaches. I agree this is a huge win, but I am just concerned we don't have any deprecation cycle and just roll out a new requirement without a heads up. > > Clark > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
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