[openstack-dev] [ALL] Removing the tox==1.6.1 pin

Matthew Oliver matt at oliver.net.au
Fri Jul 25 23:13:07 UTC 2014


Just tested tox 1.7.2 with swift on my Dev box and tox -epy27 runs fine.

So seems Swift isn't affected by this.

Matt
 On Jul 26, 2014 7:44 AM, "Clark Boylan" <cboylan at sapwetik.org> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> The recent release of tox 1.7.2 has fixed the {posargs} interpolation
> issues we had with newer tox which forced us to be pinned to tox==1.6.1.
> Before we can remove the pin and start telling people to use latest tox
> we need to address a new default behavior in tox.
>
> New tox sets a random PYTHONHASHSEED value by default. Arguably this is
> a good thing as it forces you to write code that handles unknown hash
> seeds, but unfortunately many projects' unittests don't currently deal
> with this very well. A work around is to hard set a PYTHONHASHSEED of 0
> in tox.ini files. I have begun to propose these changes to the projects
> that I have tested and found to not handle random seeds. It would be
> great if we could get these reviewed and merged so that infra can update
> the version of tox used on our side.
>
> I probably won't be able to test every single project and propose fixes
> with backports to stable branches for everything. It would be a massive
> help if individual projects tested and proposed fixes as necessary too
> (these changes will need to be backported to stable branches). You can
> test by running `tox -epy27` in your project with tox version 1.7.2. If
> that fails add PYTHONHASHSEED=0 as in
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/109700/ and rerun `tox -epy27` to
> confirm that succeeds.
>
> This will get us over the immediate hump of the tox upgrade, but we
> should also start work to make our tests run with random hashes. This
> shouldn't be too hard to do as it will be a self gating change once
> infra is able to update the version of tox used in the gate. Most of the
> issues appear related to dict entry ordering. I have gone ahead and
> created https://bugs.launchpad.net/cinder/+bug/1348818 to track this
> work.
>
> Thank you,
> Clark
>
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